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I did almost the exact same thing a few months ago.
I had an Athlon XP 1800 and upgraded to a Barton 3000 (333) which was the maximum.
It was not easy to find it but now it should be REALLY difficult. The increase was as expected, not that muchs. Your upgrade should be even smaller, less than...
I prefer AM2 even though it doesn't sound as good.
Socket M2 is too close to slot M that intel made for Merced in the P2 era, some sort of Xeon cpu. So it feels like an intel Merced2
I have a K6-2 450 that my sister uses. She's been using it almost daily for years, before that I used it almost daily for years.
My first CPU was a 486 dx2-66 by cyrix.
Looks very impressive, on the rendering at least.
It looks like space is tight between the PSU and optical drives with the cables, have you considered moving them?
Are the radiators fans blowing in? If so, wont that give you too much airflow into the case that goes through the PSU, it could be...
I'd say, get a 12V transformer from whatever, plug it in an outlet and pull the cable in.
Connect to a 6-pole, 2 step switch. It has a left-right position. Connect external power to left poles, power to fans in middle and power from PSU on the right (normal operation).
Never connect the 12V or...