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| System Name | Tiny Tim |
|---|---|
| Processor | i5-8500 |
| Motherboard | HP Elitedesk 800 G4 65w |
| Cooling | Stock copper 65w rated |
| Memory | 2x8gb HMA81GS6DJR8N-XN SK HYNIX 3200MHZ DDR4 |
| Video Card(s) | Intel UHD 630 |
| Storage | Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB + SAMSUNG MZVLB512HAJQ-000H1 500GB |
| Display(s) | NEC EA224WMi |
| Case | Stock 1L case |
| Audio Device(s) | Synaptics HD Audio |
| Power Supply | 130W external PSU |
| Mouse | Corsair Katar Wireless |
| Keyboard | Generic Dell Wireless |
| Software | Windows 11 |
So I came by an old PC (circa 2004) someone was chucking. The case is still in fantastic condition and cleaned right up after a bit of elbow grease. The paint is in great shape, not much yellowing (a bit around the front left hand side) and basically no bending of the metal frame etc. Minuscule amount of rust around the bottom makes me think it was stored under very good conditions. Built like a tank!
The original parts included a no-name Foxconn P4 board, 512mb DDR ram, 2.4ghz celeron. Caps were all popped and in any case I'm not so interested in this low end old-but-not-so-old stuff so that's going to the recyclers pronto.
It's been a good many years since I had one of these beige wonders and I'm astounded how over engineered some of the old low end steel frame cases were at the time. Even the motherboard tray comes out with four screws on this guy, it has support for 2x80mm fans (1 front, 1 back) + 1x 80mm/100mm fan mount on the door (behind the mesh). I didn't chuck the floppy or the cdrom (not sure if they work but I wanted them for the face plates at least.
Interestingly, the side panels come off only after you take off the front face plate which was a little bit of a head-scratcher. The catches for the 5.25" bays are mechanical / metal too. the 3.5" bay has metal catches + screws and pops out whole so you can add / remove the drives as needed.
The black plastic casing at the front is where you can add another 80mm fan and provides routing for the front USB cable (this looks like it's pretty standard hardware in a small metal cage so it might be possible to replace it with a USB 3.x casing from one of the Chinese e shops. Will need to look and measure out once I have decided on a motherboard for this thing.
Next up, going to start looking for affordable parts for making a good powerful workstation from this. Will update thread once I've gotten somewhere with it
The original parts included a no-name Foxconn P4 board, 512mb DDR ram, 2.4ghz celeron. Caps were all popped and in any case I'm not so interested in this low end old-but-not-so-old stuff so that's going to the recyclers pronto.
It's been a good many years since I had one of these beige wonders and I'm astounded how over engineered some of the old low end steel frame cases were at the time. Even the motherboard tray comes out with four screws on this guy, it has support for 2x80mm fans (1 front, 1 back) + 1x 80mm/100mm fan mount on the door (behind the mesh). I didn't chuck the floppy or the cdrom (not sure if they work but I wanted them for the face plates at least.
Interestingly, the side panels come off only after you take off the front face plate which was a little bit of a head-scratcher. The catches for the 5.25" bays are mechanical / metal too. the 3.5" bay has metal catches + screws and pops out whole so you can add / remove the drives as needed.
The black plastic casing at the front is where you can add another 80mm fan and provides routing for the front USB cable (this looks like it's pretty standard hardware in a small metal cage so it might be possible to replace it with a USB 3.x casing from one of the Chinese e shops. Will need to look and measure out once I have decided on a motherboard for this thing.
Next up, going to start looking for affordable parts for making a good powerful workstation from this. Will update thread once I've gotten somewhere with it
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