case? hard drive? psht. over rated for a folding rig. ive got four AMD motherboards with CPU's and ram ready to fold, and hopefully in the next week (vacation! yay!) ill be able to plow through enough of my other projects (literally, to GET to my desk) that i will be able to come up with a way to power them, and suspend them undernieth the desk and wire them up to a little network, and start a network boot folding cluster of some sort.
you can get a basic working optical drive for the cost of shipping around here, i personally have 6 propping up a monitor to my left.... and probably 6 more if i looked hard enough. i also have some basic hard drives (2-6 gigs) laying around, incase your not up to the whole network boot folding cluster idea, drives in that range can be had for next to nothing as well.
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=117427
not too bad for a few measly rigs, eh? if this project is sucessful in another week ill have iether a pentium d 820 or a dual amd dlt3c w/sp-97's folding as my 'server', and for the mess going under the desk i have laying around...
1) nf7-s w/ 2500+ xp-m
2) nf7-m w/ 2500+ xp-m
3) generic matx board with 1700+ dlt3c
4) other generic matx w/ athlon 900
and later on if i get to it, 400 celly on generic matx, 500 k6-2 on oldschol atx, and possibly a second 400 celly, but its mobo is really acting up.
catch the folding bug, its a sweet feeling when you first start, every little change could effect your PPD, its like fine tuning a racecar kinda feeling...but when you really get going its more like commanding a fleet... of...something. its pretty sweet, anyways. Fold, man. if not for the cure, do it for bragging rights.