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Post #1 by coius
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateSun, 25 May 2008 - 16:21
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/ibm-netvista-8307-m3u-pentium-iv.13353/
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Yup! I worked on a friend's machine (same thing) and got one of these in a trade since the other trade didn't work out

Specs:

2.53GHz Pentium IV w/ 512K L2 Cache

400Mhz FSB but with 333Mhz RAM (PC-2700)

512MB PC-2700 RAM

40GB HDD (Main)

CD-ROM

USB 2.0

3x PCI Slots/1x AGP 8x

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Stuff *I* have added:

USB2.0/FW400 PCI Card

SATA RAID Card (2x SATA Adapters) PCI

Radeon 7000 64MB AGP 8x

Gigabit Realtek Ethernet Card

Media:

DVD-+RW DL (16x)

DVD-+RW (8x)

2x 1TB SATA Drives (3.0Gbps)

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Stuff I have taken out:

Floppy (space for HDD)

I have been trying to build a Pentium IV Server and after going through 2 boards and CPUs, as well as 5 sticks of RAM, this is a God-send, especially since my business needs this BADLY. So instead of a 1.4/1.5Ghz Pentium IV, We got an IBM NetVista fully decked out

I have replaced the PowerSupply in the IBM with a 750Watt PSU and added a few fans to keep it cool. Most notably was that I modded a Fan and drilled holes with a template on the removable side panel and put a huge fan on it (biggest I could find) and this will be sitting in my business partner's and I's workshop that is air conditioned and heated. It will run ONLY when we are there, since all it will be is a Storage Server for when we need to dump data on it.

All in all:

Tower: Free

Other stuff that I have added: ~$700 worth of stuff

Rock on!

mp.ls