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Splinterdog · Aug 20, 2020

Horrendous, hideous, horrible...can't think of any more malodorous descriptions. I hope the designers are paying a penance somewhere.

stinger608 · Aug 21, 2020

LOLOL, that frigging case is even to hideous to be in the nostalgic thread. :roll:

micropage7 · Aug 21, 2020

Splinterdog said:
I still get these monstrosities in from time to time and I'm glad case design has now moved on a tad.
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at that time the design is pretty good, if we have glass and RGB everywhere what they gonna say in different era?

Chrispy_ · Aug 21, 2020

micropage7 said:
at that time the design is pretty good, if we have glass and RGB everywhere what they gonna say in different era?

We'll be looking back at the industry an laughing too hard to care.

"ROFL, do you remember back when Intel was making 200W CPUs on Skylake+++++ and Ampere launched as 400W cards that needed a 12-pin power connector? Yeah that was when the case market reached peak stupid and all the ventilation holes were blocked with solid glass and all the fans were garbage but at least they had sparkly lights for eleven-old kids to have wet dreams to.... Man, those were the days! Anyway, I need to take my COVID-24 pills and revaccinate for bubonic plague and typhoid before I head back to cryo. It's been a rough week with CyberTrump's confederacy taking out all of the 4G and 3G towers too. I'm hoping to get dial-up installed next week, can't beat a good old analogue land-line these days!"

silkstone · Aug 21, 2020

Splinterdog said:
I still get these monstrosities in from time to time and I'm glad case design has now moved on a tad.
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I'm quite sure that I had that case back in the 90's. I clearly remember the oval power and reset buttons.

On a side note, I got into 'modding' early. Back when there were NO black cases, I took my beige monstrosity, painted it black and added blue LEDs. I didn't cut any of the metal, but I did also add fans in the drive bays to help with overclocking.
The big thing in the modding scene back then was using old car radiators (scrap ones from small cars like the mini), aquarium water pumps and copper blocks to cool your overclocked PC. I really wanted to do something like that, but I had neither the skills nor the money to.

I find it mildly entertaining that things 'cool' in the modding scene back in the 90's, are mainstream now. In addition to real custom water cooling, there was cutting case windows along with adding light strips and LEDs to everything. It's one of the reasons I never really cared about the whole RGB and glass side panel thing; it all just looked so 90's.
I did recently make an exception with my new case and have a bit of RGB (set to static orange).

lexluthermiester · Aug 28, 2020

Jay showed a system in this video that fit in this thread perfectly;

@17:25 You'll see what I'm taking about..

Splinterdog · Aug 29, 2020

An oldie but a goldie!
That lamp, ffs...

micropage7 · Aug 29, 2020

Splinterdog said:
An oldie but a goldie!
That lamp, ffs...
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looks like in warehouse

lexluthermiester · Aug 30, 2020

Splinterdog said:
An oldie but a goldie!
That lamp, ffs...
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Good Grief!! That person has a problem!

biffzinker · Aug 30, 2020

lexluthermiester said:
That person has a problem!

Hoarding trash or just lazy? Definitely preferred Old Milwaukee.

silkstone · Aug 30, 2020

Came across this on my FB feed the other day.

biffzinker · Aug 30, 2020

silkstone said:
Came across this on my FB feed the other day.

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That’s a waterfall made of dust on the front.

lexluthermiester · Aug 30, 2020

biffzinker said:
That’s a waterfall made of dust on the front.

It does really look that way! Funny as hell!

silkstone said:
Came across this on my FB feed the other day.

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Those cases are pretty solid and are MATX compliant. Clean it, gut it and give it new life with a modern MATX mobo, CPU, RAM, GPU, PSU, drives. No point in using that mobo as it has no AGP so making a classic retro PC out of it would be a wasted effort. Even a Core2Quad would make for a solid upgrade for WinXP build.

micropage7 · Aug 30, 2020

silkstone said:
Came across this on my FB feed the other day.

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why many HP has it

i can't breathe

Chrispy_ · Aug 30, 2020

See that green plastic shroud on the CPU cooler? I really miss those.

I mean, it all works kind of okay these days - hot air gets dumped straight back into the case and we work around that problem by having gargantuan cases with loads of fans and enough airflow but in the ~~good~~ bad old days the air that passed over a heatsink was treated as undesirable and chaperoned out of the case instantly by a shroud. If we could get a PCIe / ATX standard that included shrouds then we wouldn't need quite such ridiculously huge cases for components that otherwise fit in a laptop and none of this RTX3090 power draw would really cause any case thermal issues because most of the 350W would be ejected directly out of the case without heating up any other components.

IMO, running a 3090 with an air-cooled CPU is going to be interesting

JustAnEngineer · Aug 30, 2020

I'd try to water-cool the 350+ watts from the 3090 with the radiator exhausting out the top of the case. That's noisier than a closed top and potentially lets stuff drop in the top of the case, but at least it won't bake the rest of your components. Consider that an Easy-Bake oven uses only a 100-watt lamp as its heat source.

The photos in this thread are a good reminder of why we should set up our case ventilation for positive pressure with filters on the inlet air.

Splinterdog · Aug 30, 2020

silkstone said:
Came across this on my FB feed the other day.

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You could have that looking as good as new, provided you cleaned it outside and wore a mask. I've done loads of similar clean up jobs and then sold them on.

micropage7 · Sep 19, 2020

one of my friend ask me to replace his keyboard laptop and i know as usual i'm gonna find something like this :roll:

and i replaced the keyboard, ignoring the dust and handed it back to him :rockout:

Valantar · Sep 19, 2020

micropage7 said:
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one of my friend ask me to replace his laptop keyboard and i know as usual i'm gonna find something like this
and i replaced the keyboard, ignoring the dust and handed it back to him

You need to start spreading the gospel of compressed gas dust removal to your heathen friends. Preach!

lexluthermiester · Sep 19, 2020

Valantar said:
You need to start spreading the gospel of compressed gas dust removal to your heathen friends. Preach!

That and the proper use of a vacuum with a thin nozzle attachment.

xtreemchaos · Oct 12, 2020

had a family member give me his old sound kit so ive clamed the old amp from my livingroom for my obsyroom now thought id take the top off and give it a clean good job i did its been about 18 years in service.
the amp.

the nighmare inside.

all better.

this is from the days when we connect everything with wires . we not see the likes of them again just like gas TVs

kayjay010101 · Oct 12, 2020

xtreemchaos said:
...

If that has been in service for 18 years, then that came out the literal same year that the HDMI port was invented, and it has it. Must have been expensive as hell at the time, as it's bleeding-edge.
Actually, looking at the back, it says copyright 2003. So it's only 17 years, pal

Still, really cool and good job cleaning that, it really needed a good de-dusting.

xtreemchaos · Oct 12, 2020

if i can remember it was around the £600 mark, 17, 18, im not scoring point buddy without looking for the docs its all guess work

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Valantar · Oct 12, 2020

kayjay010101 said:
If that has been in service for 18 years, then that came out the literal same year that the HDMI port was invented, and it has it. Must have been expensive as hell at the time, as it's bleeding-edge.
Actually, looking at the back, it says copyright 2003. So it's only 17 years, pal

Still, really cool and good job cleaning that, it really needed a good de-dusting.

Going by v1 of its service manual, dated in 2006, it's "only" 14 years at the most. Dates on the back only tell us when Dolby copyrighted those names, not when the unit was made/sold.

xtreemchaos · Oct 12, 2020

i wish i never posted it, everything turns in to a battle on here look at my wording on my post you will see the word "about" . this thread is about muck in stuff. you guys have far too much time on your hands do something useful like be nice it dont hurt nit picking is for children now i havnt been one for a very longtime and have forgot how to do it

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