Looks good!
If you got the monster to boot and load the OS that's 95% of the battle. The rest is cake. ![Tweak :-/O](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/smiliey_cal.gif.pagespeed.ce.yYMcAvxBJk.gif)
Oh, it's not a new build; just a body transplant to accommodate a full-size video card. I AM considering getting a second Samsung 860 SSD (I have one on the shelf I was going to put in my laptop) and going RAID 0; its the only way to get HDD bandwidth anything even close to what a modern PC can do. They're pretty cheap.
Very pretty and cool mnem. ![ThumbsUp :-+](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/icon_smile_thumbsup.gif.pagespeed.ce._JElyJQqdB.gif)
Yeah; I have to admit I like the retro look. Of course, I've always been a fan of big-block sleeper builds. 460-Ford powered 70 Super Beetle, 455-Olds '66 Tempest, Cologne 2.8V6 '80 powered Triumph Spitfire, Cadd 500 powered '78 F150... the list goes on. Every one looked bone stock until you opened up the hood... or opened 'er up on a long stretch of highway.
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Nice system mnem, never realised it was a midi though, I prefer full size towers, hence why mine lives under the bench and it has loads of cable management options so for the large part my cables are neatly tucked out of the way behind a partition so they don't obstruct the airflow anymore than is absolutely necessary.
https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16811139060
Yeah, this is my daily driver, so concessions had to be made heightwise. Just keeping it a foot off the floor cuts dustbunny and grime accumulation tenfold, and I'm NEVER going to willingly put up with that shit again.
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Thermaltake V200 Case $64.99 at AmazonI'm liking the current generation of gamer cases with smoked glass sides and PSU tunnel design; they're what I've designed a thousand times in my mind ever since I built my first PC in a reclaimed mil-spec triple-walled EMP-shielded NASTEC Server case. That V200 is a damn nice case for only $65. The problem is I'm a total throwback when it comes to work environment; I swap back & forth between Win7 & Win10 OS drives CONSTANTLY. I NEED my hot-swap HDD bays.
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But modern cases have done away with the front 5.25" slots to make room for fans & radiator, and the full-height hideaway front doors that were all the rage a few years ago are now all but extinct.
mnem
"Stuff costs more. Kids are loud. Everybody's a assh'o. Stuff is ugly. Music isn't music anymore, it's noise." *Sigh* I'm turning into my own grandpa.