I had one that looked like that case with an LCD at the top
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That's the Xaser III. Same guts as the Chieftek and Antec versions. The bezel was nicer though.
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I had one that looked like that case with an LCD at the top
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That's not what he was asking. He wanted to know if the DFI that made this embedded thing is the same one from the 90s. That was my question too when I read the article.No DFI and ChiefTek are not the same
No DFI and ChiefTek are not the same. If you have to ask you are not OG from the 90s LOL!
DFI was famous for the even more famous LanParty line of Motherboards. Yellow PCI slots etc... miss them dearly.
Young adults even today have no idea what a Lan Party is anyways
Yes, DFI stopped making the consumer grade boards like the LanParty and shifted to mostly industrial and embedded applications.That's not what he was asking. He wanted to know if the DFI that made this embedded thing is the same one from the 90s. That was my question too when I read the article.
That's not what he was asking. He wanted to know if the DFI that made this embedded thing is the same one from the 90s. That was my question too when I read the article.
No DFI and ChiefTek are not the same. If you have to ask you are not OG from the 90s LOL!
DFI was famous for the even more famous LanParty line of Motherboards. Yellow PCI slots etc... miss them dearly.
Young adults even today have no idea what a Lan Party is anyways
I still have one of these in my office...aluminum, so light! used it for a full tower LAN rig. held a 7800gtx card back when they first came out.
Did you have one too?Oh my, gotta love the Britney poster.
Did you have one too?
This pic of my desk is 20 years old, can't believe it's been that long.
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Did you have one too?
This pic of my desk is 20 years old, can't believe it's been that long.
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I had this exact same case. Nothing but good things to say about Chieftek
Hot damn, i thought i was the only one in the world who had one of those beasts! The fact that you still have the loop is friggin amazing...and in such good condition! That...is a piece of koolance historyDamn, I recently retired my koolance pc2 case, modded Dragon. Still have it and love it.
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I had a Chieftec. It was a great case, but in the end it had to be retired as I couldn't fit full length modern graphics cards in the thing when fully populated with HDD's. The case itself was actually pretty expensive in the day.
I have the Antec branded version of the above case in black. I really liked the case at the time but I have since moved on. The case now houses my CNC rig in the shop. It has been right used and abused.Damn, this is bringing back some nostalgia.
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Wholesale cost on them was about $40 iirc... Sold for $60. Add more for the aluminum version...
With white IDE ports, looks like a highpoint rocketraid card
Damn, this is bringing back some nostalgia.
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Awshit, here we go:
Quiz: WHo can name that raid card?
You ain't [H] if you never had a blue Dragon with the side window.
Damn, this is bringing back some nostalgia.
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and blue cathode tubes.You ain't [H] if you never had a blue Dragon with the side window.
This is a thing of beauty. I am actually proud of your cable management considering what you had to work with.What's with all of these [ S ]oft hads? I need to walk about 15 feet to look at my blue case. Currently has a Q6600 setup in it.
I liked the case and the removable 3.5" bays were kind of unique for their time, but my experience with the mid tower was it is a bit cramped. I think mine housed 3 or 4 different builds over the years, and it was always a challenge to work in. There weren't SSDs and we had PATA cables to try to route, so some builds worked well, but I had to get creative when SLI became a thing.
Here's the last configuration of single card, an XFX 6800GT AGP circa Feb 2006. You can see how that card's cooler just barely clears the HDDs.
Since someone will ask, of the top of my head:
AMD 3800+ X2
Gigabyte GA-K8NS Ultra-939
2GB DDR-400
XFX 6800GT w/ Arctic Cooling NV5 Silencer (AGP)
2 DVD+RW drives (Both PATA)
Maxtor 120GB boot drive
Maxtor 120GB x 3 RAID0 on PCI RAID card
500W Ultra PSU
Blue cold cathode tubes (CCFL)
Kingwin liquid cooler which wasn't any better than the Zalman cnps9500 I took out to install this (It was my first attempt at liquid cooling and it was a kit with 1/4" tubing. Neat to play with but nothing special)
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The thing I will say about that picture is that it really shows you how the OEMs were just starting to take computer customization seriously. The IDE cables I was able to get round sleeved cables for, but I sleeved all of those power cables myself. (There's probably a few people on [H], myself included, who had the pleasure of sleeving IDE cables before you could buy those) Lights were just starting to become a thing, but we didn't have commodity LEDs. Those are florescent lights. I think a couple of those fans did have lighting in them, which was relatively new. There are actually two radiators for that cooling loop, one is in the 5.25" bay where the reservoir is, and the other is attached to the back of the case. I had to mount the second fan outside of the case because the radiator was too big for it to fit. There's even a PCI tuner card in the bottom, which is why those two beige parts in the bottom left are where they are. I had cut slots into the free area so I could retain the USB and extra audio connectors present on the board. This is more or less a maxed out version of this case, but there weren't 10 slot cases that I'm aware of, so you had to make due.
After that board it had a DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 SLI-DR Expert with basically all of the same parts so I could use two XFX 6800GTs in SLI. Thankfully that board was more advanced than my friend's ASUS setup we had put together before this, which required you to flip a card over in order to switch between normal and SLI modes. (Long time [H]'ers will know what I'm talking about) Those GPUs fit okay, but it was when those darn 8800GTX card came out, they were so long this case couldn't fit them without being modified. So in order to run 8800GTX SLI in that case, I drilled out the rivets that held the bottom HDD bracket in place and moved it to the bottom of the case. I could still keep a couple of HDDs in there if they were staggered between the 8800GTX cards as the cards would stick past the end of the drive. So I went to a monster CM stacker which I still have, although now with SSDs and not running SLI the case is practically bare inside. I've definitely thought about getting a smaller case as it's way too big for what I have now.
No clue, it's a half height PCI card though, so that probably narrows it down some.
However you're over here like look at my RAID card, and I'm like did you pull that case apart and spray paint it all black? Is that a backside mounted heatsink and fan on your GPU? You're running an external liquid cooling loop?!?
Can you be [H] if you had a silver Chenming with a side window?You ain't [H] if you never had a blue Dragon with the side window.
Winner! Give this man a qupie doll!
i thought so too, looked like i built it , then i noticed thisThis is a thing of beauty. I am actually proud of your cable management considering what you had to work with.
i thought so too, looked like i built it , then i noticed this
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ps: i currently have black loom hiding my ketchup/mustard...
i was pointing out the mangled plain ol grey ide cableYeah those are DIY brackets to mount thin 60mm fans under the HHD's to keep them cool. I ran out of 80mm fans in the HDD cage so I had to make due with what I had
This is a thing of beauty. I am actually proud of your cable management considering what you had to work with.