Plexi Case  
A few things differ in this version from the original plans.

First of all, I abandoned the idea of having a floppy drive, even though I could have done it in this design. This is now my first floppyless computer. The fact that the DVD-ROM is a bootable device, and the existence of Bart's PE, removed my last objections to going floppyless.

Second, I'd gone to a lot of trouble to make the lowest case fan ducted over the GeForce FX 5900 video card with an installed Zalman ZM80D-HP Passive heat Sink. But during the construction and fiddling, I managed to (unknowingly) knock one of the adhesive-backed RAM heatsinks off one of the video RAM chips, and subsequently cooked it during a test run. So as you can see in this photo, the video card has been replaced (at great expense) with a newer card, without the fancy aftermarket heat sink. I think I'll stick with stock heat sinks for a while.

A few things differ in this version from the original plans.

First of all, I abandoned the idea of having a floppy drive, even though I could have done it in this design. This is now my first floppyless computer. The fact that the DVD-ROM is a bootable device, and the existence of Bart's PE, removed my last objections to going floppyless.

Second, I'd gone to a lot of trouble to make the lowest case fan ducted over the GeForce FX 5900 video card with an installed Zalman ZM80D-HP Passive heat Sink. But during the construction and fiddling, I managed to (unknowingly) knock one of the adhesive-backed RAM heatsinks off one of the video RAM chips, and subsequently cooked it during a test run. So as you can see in this photo, the video card has been replaced (at great expense) with a newer card, without the fancy aftermarket heat sink. I think I'll stick with stock heat sinks for a while.


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