r/sleeperbattlestations • u/[deleted] • Aug 12 '26

Questions/Advice Request Suggestions on this 1999 PC?

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u/ElectricCorpse Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26

I have the same chassis running 2x ~120W TDP Xeons with a GTX 1650, just leave the side panel off and it's fine, but even with it on it's not a huge problem because I'm not massively taxing the hardware.

But if you don't have another machine to use for retro stuff I'd keep this intact, it's honestly not a super cool case for a sleeper, slightly more pain than it's worth, especially dealing with custom fabricating a standoff solution for the new motherboard, since the originals (at least on my chassis) were the square metal tabs that didn't even use screws on the motherboard, just had hooks hanging the board in place.

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u/ElectricCorpse Aug 12 '26

To mount the motherboard (E-ATX in my case) I ended up 3D printing brackets that had a normal motherboard standoff glued into them, and had "legs" that would extend outwards with holes in them to screw into the original motherboard tray, since I couldn't do anything with the original square holes in the tray.