Finally got time to play with the new toy... errr,
work with the new
tool. 
Haven't done any drilling yet, found the antec fan can reach pretty good when just bolted carefully to the middle edge mobo hole. There really is no use for it though, unless I slow down or swap out the stock fan, it alone is quite sufficient.
Found time to sleeve some thermal sensor and power lines I had for an old Cooler Master CoolDrive4 unit I thought would work great for monitoring temps of various parts when not in XP. Ends up handy because it'll hold a pata hard drive pointed out almost underneath the area of the mobo the ribbon cable would connect to -- lets me chain an optical onto it when the mobo only has 1 ide connection.
By far, absolutely, the bestest thing I like about this is the portability. I can shift it a little, move it as far as the cables allow, or disconnect the power etc and move it to a side table. With the old mobo box and psu/drives/cables x2 stewn across my bench, it used to be a bit of a PITA to make room for something new.
The first set of pics is with a budget clocker, one of those XFX NF650i-Ultra's NCIX has on sale for $99 plus a $20 mail-in rebate, and a E2160 1.8ghz 800fsb 1mb Dual Core that they have for $103. Heh, even the Ninja was on sale that same week. Ram is some G.Skill 6400PK's I had spare, could put anything in it because it runs very well behaved in unlinked mode, and the vid is a 6800GS spare. So depending on the ram/vid/case/psu, I can outfit it for about $400-600 and up. The mobo/cpu base at about $200 is extremely sweet, the thing runs like a champ.
The second set is a DFI LanParty UT nF4 Ultra-D I picked up not too long ago and was still untested. I had 4 untested socket 939 cpu's as well as 2 kits of untested DDR ram, so woot, I went at it all at the same time. Tons of fun, never got past the first cpu lol, ended up spending all the time setting up an OS all nice for it. It's ready now though, diff HSF as well. Maybe get back to it tonight.
Enough blether, here's the pics. Sorry for so many, I can never decide which to cut.
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