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Oh and here's a tip I use when you don't have a magnetized screw driver, take and dip the bit end into a kids glue stick and it will hold screws from dropping. Works like a charm !
Oh and here's a tip I use when you don't have a magnetized screw driver, take and dip the bit end into a kids glue stick and it will hold screws from dropping. Works like a charm !
Thanks again everyone. Yeah the "boss" doesn't care much re the build and performance numbers.
You're both right ! lol Yes no strong magnetic sources are better but as long as you're not talking banging super magnets all around inside. But as my precision screw and nut driver set isn't magnetized then the glue stick is the bomb for holding or retrieving lost screws.
The glue stick idea is a very good one. I am very careful with magnets near PC parts and the magnetism is very low on a screwdriver tip, barely enough to lift a tiny screw. My case has a door which is held closed by two magnets.
As promised Gary my second "Franky"
Started life as a Compaq SR1915AN with a Sempron 1.8Ghz 512 DDR2RAM an old clapped out 80GB IDE hard drive, XP Home, full of dust and cobwebs and cost me $20 at the local council recycle centre. Case marked and written all over and I thought was due for spare parts until I cleaned it up seeing it has SATA sockets and under the grime a decent case.
Now looks fairly presentable with an Athlon 64 x2 2.5Ghz 4GB RAM extra fans and an old Seagate SATA 80GB drive (shortly to be a Seagate 120GB) plus filters to eclude a lot of the dust.
Now the filters don't look pretty and the Northbridge has another NB heatsink fitted tightly on top to provide extra cooling and the front fan - yes is mounted off the the front panel with wall fixing plugs as stand offs and held in with cable ties (to clear the power and led assembly).
The side panel has an extra fan also held in with cable ties. OS is now 7 and it runs just fine and is making me a nice little tester and after my next "Franky" will find a home in some kids room.
What I would like to know is what sort of PCI slot is that that takes that Asus card (also a recycle) as I want to make it DVI if I can. I have a ton of other graphics cards but this is the only one that will fit the slot configuration.
like your build ICit2lol and like that your are making some good use out of your old case and hdd, it's looking good man