I love tinkering with old computers and every once in a while I get a theme in my head. The vision for this was to build something cool old gaming PC out of the full-size Chieftec Dragon case which I’ve always thought is a bad ass case. The period I was going for was about 2004 to 2007. However, I had this 8800 GT that I just couldn’t get to work so instead I’m using a GT 740 until I can diagnose what’s going on with the 8800. Badge custom made by me to look like the Chieftec logo but needed to be more badass to match the badassery and color scheme of the build.
I also made a custom 3D printed hotswap drive bay for the SSD evocative of CF drive bays and old 5.25 floppy drive bays.
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 2.66GHz
GPU: Nvidia GT 740
RAM: Patriot G-Series 2x2GB DDR2
Storage: 256 GB SATA SSD
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi PCI
Mobo: XFX 7501
Case: Chieftec Dragon
CPU Cooler: Zalman CNPS9500
Monitor: IBM 6739-60N 19 ThinkVision C190
Speakers: JBL Control 1 Pro running off SONY SRS-D2 PC sub
Keyboard: IBM Model M13
Mouse: Microsoft Intelimouse