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: May 1st, 2002 |
| Category |
: Various |
| Manufacturer |
: Various |
| Author |
: Jin-Wei Tioh |
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Now comes the part where you break out the tools. First, gather all the parts together in a nice, neat pile. Well okay, you don't really have to, but I did so for the photo shoot. Next do what every system builder does - slap in the motherboard, and screw that sucker down. Stick in the CPU, RAM, HS/F and connect any wires that you have to (indicator LEDs, ATX, front panel connectors, etc.). Then install the storage devices and any other miscellaneous peripherals.
There are going to be 2 problems you'll immediately notice. You can only use half-height PCI cards due to the reduced height. Not only that, you have to replace the stock brackets with those supplied with the case. Unfortunately, this is far from a universal part - the supplied brackets wouldn't fit the D-Link DFE-538TX. To remedy this, I installed the card sans bracket, and super-glued it to the back faceplate of the case. Ghetto yes, but I didn't have the time to fabricate something to hold the NIC (airlines are evil).
The next headache will be cable routing. Those flat ribbon cables are going to choke up the insides of the case without good cable management. Since no one sells a 5' single-ended ATA-100 cable, I just took 2 regular cables and sliced off the longer end. Be careful that none of the exposed leads get shorted out though. You could just as well shoot for rounded cables, a good idea in this case.
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