Managed to resurrect an old AMD socket A machine, I needed the casing and PSU for a much more modern machine but that one has other parts now so I could drag all the old parts back from storage.
I used a Medion case which used to house a Pentium 4, added two fans, both 80x80x25mm, for the intake fan I had to create a mount, it didn't have one, it did have a position for an exhaust fan.
The mainboard is a late era micro ATX Asrock K7S41, pretty nice board with a SiS chipset.
The CPU is the almighty Sempron 2600+ socket A (Thoroughbread) which runs at 1833Mhz.
I fitted 512 Mb RAM DDR-1 400Mhz
The graphics card is an AGP Asus Geforce 6200 card, not the fastest of the era but it is capable of playing Unreal Tournament GOTY 1999
The harddrive is a Hitachi 160Gb PATA drive and it already had the OS installed on it, I put it away for the day that I could puzzle this machine together again, I use Windows 2000 Professional on this machine.
(re)building this machine was a trip back through time, the CPU is one without a heat spreader, also the cooler mounts onto the CPU socket so you have to be careful and use a cooling paste that won't run and can cope with quite a low surface pressure.
The CPU cooler is one with an 80x80mm fan, its aluminium with a copper insert, you hve to be careful not to break the CPU while fitting it, cracked dies were not uncommon those days.
The drives are all PATA which means either using ribbon cables (ARGH airflow!) or using rounded cables, I opted for the latter, same with the floppy cable, yes this thing has a 1.44Mb floppy drive, all hail the mighty floppy drive!
The machine booted up at the first go, had to adjust the BIOS again (dead battery) but it seems to run quite nicely at the moment.
