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[|DRC| Wartex]

I got this new computer, it was HP e-Vectra with a 10 gig hard drive, celeron 733 and 128 MB ram. I upgraded it to P-III 800EB, 256 MB RAM, 40 GB HDD, and rechrinstened to "The Micro Box". I also got a 17 inch Benq LCD monitor for it, so I put the computer in backpack and carry the monitor to school, and sit there with a full computer instead of having a laptop with 14 inch asshole display and shitty small keyboard. I drilled over 200 holes in it to make it lighter and it lost about 40% of it's weight. Was 3.9 Kg now about 2.5 Kg.



It has everything I need, USB, LPT, COM, PS/2, LAN:



Full-sized CPU (I will upgrade it to P3-1300EB):

http://www.wartex.net/personal/photography/computers/microbox/cpu.jpg

LAN chip:


Removable HDD bay before drill rape:


HDD bay lid after "enlightening":


Screen:


Bottom of the skeleton after drilling:


I got a 1-platter slim 40 GB HDD for it (which I regret about now, because it heats up to 60-70 ⁰ C, never buy Maxtor! Western Digital for life!):




One of the drawbacks is gayness "2 option" BIOS, only lets you change basic stuff like sound enabled/disabled, time:


It also has a shared-memory Intel GPU, which is fast enough to render Quake III, 48 FPS at 16 bit 640x480. Quake II runs perfectly on this machine (90+ FPS):


256 MB standard-size SD RAM:


It also has a 24x CD, which I will change to DVD later on, it's standard Slim-ATAPI:


This is how motherboard looks like:


Complete system:


After the drilling I spent good 2 hours removing metal peels from the carpet:




I will use it for web design and programming, so CPU power is irrelevant, it's fast enough for me to spec matches, play Q2 and P3-1300EB is not really bad, considering it's the most efficient CPU (ops/MHz are better than in P-4). I'm planning to get a USB floppy and a compact keyboard (one without the numeric keypad).
There is no barebone on the market that can beat this computer in speed and size, it's a true Micro box.
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[Rarek]

So many holes.... I bet its soul bled out.
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[|DRC| Wartex]

|DRC| Rarek wrote:

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So many holes.... I bet its soul bled out.

My neighbour's soul bled out because I was drilling on the floor till 11:50 pm

[Rarek]

They're German.

"Meint EARS AR BLEEDING!!! ARGGHGLALALA1!!! SHNAUSA!!"

[Anonymous]

lol thats the smallest pc ive seen. So when are you setting up a biz and sellin them wartex pcs hehe.

[|DRC| SLIM]

That is totally awesome. How much did that screen set you back?

[|DRC| Wartex]

I traded the comp and screen for a laptop. I only paid $25 for RAM upgrade.

[|DRC| Iceman]

Yeah it kind of took me by surprise when he showed up at work with a whole computer in this little bookbag.......I was think wtf is that? Pretty cool little system thou

[Rarek]

We all know its just some midget wearing computer parts. Pfftt.

[HAL9000]

its uber-micro cool

nice custom work sir.
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[Anonymous]

better than my shit box

[|DRC| SLIM]

That's a cool case, but what about this one?

http://www.collegehumor.com/?image_id=90555

[|DRC| intekra]

Awesome work!

I found the perfect keyboard if you had bluetooth (PDS fold up's are really nice), but since you don't, check these out:

http://www.iocombo.com/product/showproduct.php?productid=05WQ
http://www.toolspcs.com/fregrounship6.html

Or just get a roll-up keyboard