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If you want expandability, go for a 3-large bay, one to two-small bay mid-tower. Like I said before, even if you don't have enough components/drives to go into all those bays right now--that's fine; someday you might.
Make sure it has at least 2 internal bays where you can put the primary hard drive, and a future secondary drive.
Anyhoo, good ideas above from Mosaic1 and Train. Have to call it a night now...se you on the morrow.
P.S. Mosaic1: Whatever it is that you promised jtmurphy, I want video and/or 8x10 glossies.... https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
Nite all.
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Inwin A500 http://www.targetpc.com/hardware/cases/inwina500/
InWin S500 - -Kinda like this lay out http://www.neoseeker.com/resourcelink.html?rlid=16592
Hope this helps.
There are pictures in there also.
Goodnight
don't let the bed bugs bite.
If they do
hit them with a shoe https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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http://store.yahoo.com/cablesonline/computercases.html
Picture and discriptions.
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Morning All, Just caught up on the posts. Just when I started to feel comfortable with towers up pops more information. Will be out of pocket until Sat. evening. The time has come for the once a year marathon known as Xmas shopping.
Will change to a new section when I get back.
QoH - All we gotta do on purchasing this hardware is take it one step at a time and follow caveat emptor to the letter. We have an ace in the hole as you have already demonstrated in your wanderings which is VirDr. I woulda liked to have seen some of those guys faces you talked to.
Bistro, the eagle landed.
To all of you this has been another great week for me. Thanks. Later
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Thank you Mosaic. I understand now. I forgot we already established something else was called a "slot". I'll watch what I call things (hole/ slot/ space/ place/ void ) https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
OK Then when I read on the specifications "slots", that was refering to the places the cards go into.
"Bays" is what I was concerned about. Where I was looking at pictures didn't have the number of bays on the spec. list. When I saw slots I thought that was what I was looking for. Just have to look and count.
Thank you Train. Good links. With pictures. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/ I don't have time to look real good right now, but I will after while.
I have to work today... I'll pop in.
See ya
https://discussions.virtualdr.com/ Train,
Got plenty shoes to hit um with !
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Slots>>motherboards; can also refer to the holes in the back of the case that accomodate the motherboard.
Bays>>Cases;where the drives such as CD-ROMs and hard drives are mounted
Slot Bays>>sections of a casino set apart for mechanized gambling
Bay Slots>>the gambling machines found in 'Slot Bays'
Holes>>what occurs in people's pockets who enter 'Slot Bays' to play on the "Bay Slots'
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https://discussions.virtualdr.com/ bistro,
Casino's !! Oh No ! With all this cash burning a hole in my pocket, don't give me any ideas !
I gamble enough with my checking account, as it is. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
Mosaic and Train,
Thanks. I'm fixin' to go check out these new links.
Check in later.
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I just look at the link Mosaic, Great pictures !
I also have looked into this case again to see about the modem and
how it fits so I'll know which one of those Motherboards I'll need, bistro.
This Motherboard is "folded" at about 2/3 of the way so it is mostly horizontal but 1/3 is vertical. The cards are in the vertical part, so they are parallel with the motherboard. Five black slots (The ISA slots ?)about 5 1/2" long are in this part. Two white slots about 4" long are in between those.
One of the five black ones, which is empty, has an extra little bitty 1/2" piece added to it.
Both the sound card and the modem are in black slots.The modem's pins are on the long 6" side of the card (6" X 3 1/4" for the card itself )Nothing in the two white slots or the other three black slots.
On the flat part of the motherboard are these little short long cards (look like about one inch tall and four inches long) and there are six slots (white >the DIM slots ?) and all six slots are filled up. Another strange looking thing that looks
like a curry comb, only black plastic with it's teeth sticking straight up.
I evidently don't have the AGP slot.
On my way now to look at your's Train.
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https://discussions.virtualdr.com/ Wow! What a description, QoH. After careful examination, research and analysis, it's been determined what you described is an old, old motherboard. Please take that into account--the new one you'll get will look pretty different, but the same basic make-up. That's also an old modem you got there (judging form the size)--consider getting a new one. (DO NOT get any modem that says "Winmodem" on the box/ad. That means it's software-driven, rather than hardware-driven , which is much, much better.)
Sound card needs replacing also. I'll say again--the Soundblaster Live! series have stood up as #1 in review after review. Can't really lose with any of them. Just choose one of the models within your budget.\
Yes, those black slots are ISA slots--they're getting "old hat" now. The white ones are PCI--still around and kickin'. But that one with the "extra piece"? HOOOOO BOY! You've got a VESA slot! I don't know anybody who uses a VESA anymore...(not trying to make you feel bad here, mind you...).
Girl, we are gonna have fun building you a new one...'bout time. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
Post what you've got for a CD-ROM--we'll see if it will need replacing (you might count on that though). So far, you're gonna need all new components: sound, vid, modem,hd, RAM, etc.
Probably will need a new floppy drive, if the one you have is the original--may be ready to bite the dust.
Don't worry---we'll take all this one step at a time and in chunky-chewy bite-size pieces. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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Ha! Had an interesting afternoon--demonstrated it pays to shop around. Went to the local military store and, as usual, wandered back to the computer section. Happened to look in a glass cabinet where they keep all their RAM sticks. They had 32mb of regular EDO for $115!!! I asked the guy there about it--told him you could get the same thing just about anywhere else for 20 to 35 bucks. "Gee, I dunno...I'll look into it"--then he just went onto his business. Sheeeeesh! Well, one of the customers evidently overheard and started asking me my opinion on some of the systems/components they had there. "Yep, this is good. Nope, that sux"...etc. etc. In the conversation, I mentioned to him about VDr; specifically about "Operation Delta"--he got real excited and wrote down the URL. Well, another guy close by overheard that and wanted the URL too. So, we may be getting "visitors" soon. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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Hhhmmm...that might be true....let's take a poll...(ok, ok...any Floridians here are invited too). On a scale of one to 10, how much fun are the readers/posters having here? Be honest (or at least tactful... https://discussions.virtualdr.com/ ).
EDIT: OMIGOD...Page "5"??? Ok, forget the poll--this one's WAY too long! https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
greengoose1: I'll let you have the honors of starting (dare I say it?) "Operation Delta 4".
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As you well know you are doing a excellent job of instructing, I know,I know, you need the refresher course before starting you own project.
My thoughts, Informative and yes, fun
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Thank you. But I wonder about that "excellent" part (honestly). Sometimes I get in a hurry and end up muddying the waters rather than clarifying (take a gander at some of my answers in this forum https://discussions.virtualdr.com/). Will watch that in the future. I make no claims to be an "expert" and I welcome any other comments; even (and maybe especially) if they are corrections to my posts--I'm not too old, nor too thin-skinned to be 'educated'.
