Bill Dimwit
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- Mar 21, 2018
Ok finally pull the trigger and joined after about 10 years of lurking.
So here I am with a insane project, we all seen sleepers, wether its a vega with a small block or a new pc in a old ibm case. But there is one thing we never seen. At least not with sleeper PCs. A modem pc that could pass as being old even with the side panels off. Yes you read that right. It will even look old in the inside.
Now I know what your thinking, how? Well that answer will have to wait.
Ok on to the case mods and what not.
The case started life out as a Mitsubishi server. It had quad xeons (long gone) 6 hdds and all the server bits.
I modified the case off and on over the years but now the reall stuff starts.
So far I cut out the fan grills and added a few fan spots. But thats it.
Sadly I jumped the gun and started to remove the back of the case with out taking pictures. But do to a misshap. (dropped a shear blade on my leg) It was bad enough that my socks were wet within seconds...
now I have a lovely hole in my leg and can hardly walk. But it will get better, I hope. Lucky for once my screwed up nervous system came in handy. I hardly felt a thing. Yeah tap me on the arm and Im in pain, but when a pice of my leg is missing I feal nothing. 
Ok how do I fit this in a atx the case?
View attachment 197494
With a drill and power saw silly billy.
Yes thats a 15 slot i/o panle. Bet you never seen one of those? Bet your now thinking what the heck kind of motherboard gose in a case with 15 pci slots? Well we will find out soon. Ill be ordering the motherboard soon and once revived you will see it and the mods needed to make it fit the case.
Oh, and lets not forget the case ill be starting with.
View attachment 197495
Its a little dinged up, but we can get that fixed.
Yes thats a Mitsubishi logo on the cd drive. When I got the system it had all Mitsubishi parts in it. Ram, cd drive floppy drive, power supply and so on. If it weren't for the system being shot I would have restored it.
The monitor however works grate! I sold a ips that cost my 2.5k new and kept the Mitsubishi crt it had.
Thats how nice it is. Supports 2560x2048@60 or 1600x1200@85 or 1024x768@140 and the color is amazing. The lack of desk space however sucks.
Ok into the plains.
Clean up old shabby mods I done to the case.
Mod the case to fit the 15slot i\o panel.
Mod the case to fit a 14 slot back plain.
Mod the case to fit a full length cpu board.
Mod the case for better cooling
Tutch up the paint.
Rewire the front panle leds and buttons.
And the parts list. (Subject to changes)
I7-6700te or 7700t with socket 7/370 style passive heatsink.
16gb ddr4 ram
r9 370, but Im looking for a more retro looking card. Any ideas? I want to pkay kingdom come.
6 raptor hdds in raid 10, but may buy scsi drives to compete the look.
Old sound blaster, with game port. And ill use it.
Lots of old pci I/O cards.
H110 lga 1151 cpu card. No need to sli/cf or overclocking.
15slot backplane.
Ill try to start back up in the mods tomorrow, but I cant guarantee much. I cant stand for long let alone walk very well since my accident. It will be baby steps. I can however post the mods that have all ready been done to the case.

So here I am with a insane project, we all seen sleepers, wether its a vega with a small block or a new pc in a old ibm case. But there is one thing we never seen. At least not with sleeper PCs. A modem pc that could pass as being old even with the side panels off. Yes you read that right. It will even look old in the inside.
Now I know what your thinking, how? Well that answer will have to wait.
Ok on to the case mods and what not.
The case started life out as a Mitsubishi server. It had quad xeons (long gone) 6 hdds and all the server bits.
I modified the case off and on over the years but now the reall stuff starts.
So far I cut out the fan grills and added a few fan spots. But thats it.
Sadly I jumped the gun and started to remove the back of the case with out taking pictures. But do to a misshap. (dropped a shear blade on my leg) It was bad enough that my socks were wet within seconds...

Ok how do I fit this in a atx the case?
View attachment 197494
With a drill and power saw silly billy.
Yes thats a 15 slot i/o panle. Bet you never seen one of those? Bet your now thinking what the heck kind of motherboard gose in a case with 15 pci slots? Well we will find out soon. Ill be ordering the motherboard soon and once revived you will see it and the mods needed to make it fit the case.
Oh, and lets not forget the case ill be starting with.
View attachment 197495
Its a little dinged up, but we can get that fixed.
Yes thats a Mitsubishi logo on the cd drive. When I got the system it had all Mitsubishi parts in it. Ram, cd drive floppy drive, power supply and so on. If it weren't for the system being shot I would have restored it.
The monitor however works grate! I sold a ips that cost my 2.5k new and kept the Mitsubishi crt it had.

Ok into the plains.
Clean up old shabby mods I done to the case.
Mod the case to fit the 15slot i\o panel.
Mod the case to fit a 14 slot back plain.
Mod the case to fit a full length cpu board.
Mod the case for better cooling
Tutch up the paint.
Rewire the front panle leds and buttons.
And the parts list. (Subject to changes)
I7-6700te or 7700t with socket 7/370 style passive heatsink.
16gb ddr4 ram
r9 370, but Im looking for a more retro looking card. Any ideas? I want to pkay kingdom come.
6 raptor hdds in raid 10, but may buy scsi drives to compete the look.
Old sound blaster, with game port. And ill use it.
Lots of old pci I/O cards.
H110 lga 1151 cpu card. No need to sli/cf or overclocking.
15slot backplane.
Ill try to start back up in the mods tomorrow, but I cant guarantee much. I cant stand for long let alone walk very well since my accident. It will be baby steps. I can however post the mods that have all ready been done to the case.
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