I am Oldskool

ALXAndy · 29 Sep 2017 at 09:53

Last night I decided to fit the sound deadening material onto the DVDROM drive. I had a look over it, and realised pretty quickly I could not deaden the top. If I did then it would not have gone back into the case. So, instead I removed the drive, then removed the face plate from the HDD bay I fitted and instead I completely covered the bottom of the DVD drive. I also deadened the sides of the CD bay.

And the other side obs, where the pieces were bigger because the mech to remove the drives is not there. And it did the trick ! all you can hear now is a gentle whoosh as the drive spins up with no rattling or buzzing. Awesome

The top and right side are now back in place.

So as soon as I feel better I will finish the two cover panels

ALXAndy · 29 Sep 2017 at 12:27

Pushed on and finished the panels. Now I am a sweaty mess and need to go back to bed.

It's still not quite finished finished because the black panel will have a chrome decal on with the date it was completed. I still have a few jobs to do before that

I did treat myself to a separate chair for this rig because the arms on my chair do not drop (I broke them, now they are fixed in the up position and don't go down).

ALXAndy · 1 Oct 2017 at 13:52

Nearly there. Just need the chair to arrive

ALXAndy · 6 Oct 2017 at 13:30

Thanks guys. Sadly there has been a delay with the chair so I haven't had a chance to actually use it properly yet ! Should be here next week apparently.

ALXAndy · 7 Oct 2017 at 20:22

almoststew1990 said:
Now let's see some benchmarks!

Hah ! finding them to download is pretty tough tbh. I did run one (can't remember which) and the GPU was between a Geforce 2 and Geforce 3. Not that it matters, it does what I need it to

I've still not overclocked the CPU because I can't seem to find a temp monitor for it.

ALXAndy · 8 Oct 2017 at 11:26

Wicked cheers I will try that. Right now I CBA dragging my chair to and fro because it's wrecking my cowhide.. I also decided to keep the machine off of the internet, so yeah, lots of running back and forth. I did connect it up first install but it downloaded a crap ton of updates that then made it crawl. I would imagine they far succeeded the age of the board and CPU and were for much faster core 2 rigs and the likes. So right now I have to ferry my chair over this rug with a memory stick in hand. Wish the chair had arrived, but they said it won't even be shipped until at least Monday *sigh* so much for "IN STOCK AND READY TO SHIP !!11". I phoned him and he said he's sent it off to be recovered, but however does that mean in stock and ready to ship. Then he tells me read the small print.. Yeah, slightly annoyed would be putting it mildly.

I was aware of Oldversion. Been using it since about 2002 for older versions of Yahoo! messenger lol. That's gone now though

Will deffo try out Quake 3. I had the original game in a steelcase (big box) for Linux but it seems it got lost somewhere