[SOLVED] Advice on a sleeper PC

[Tekguy0]

I am planning to renovate an old Compaq Presario 7478 prebuilt into a "sleeper" PC. This seems to be the best category for this topic, given as its a prebuilt pc. It currently has an AMD K6-III 533 MHz and 64 MB of RAM. Does anybody know of any concerns about using this particular chassis (I think its at least MicroATX)? I plan to fit a B450 Mobo, with a spare AMD Ryzen 3 2200G, 8 GB of RAM, and a SATA SSD that I have lying around. It has no cooling besides the PSU, so I am concerned about heat. Advice? Have any of you done sleepers before? Here is an image. I have only the tower.

 

[Grobe]

The first thing that comes in my mind is check how much space you have, see if there is enough if you need to replace the PSU to a newer model.

 

[Tekguy0]

The first thing that comes in my mind is check how much space you have, see if there is enough if you need to replace the PSU to a newer model.

I think there is enough space. The PSU is 200W, and ancient, so that will definitely be upgraded.

 

[Grobe]

I think there is enough space. The PSU is 200W, and ancient, so that will definitely be upgraded.

Yeah, and check lenghtwise too. I have had cabinets that I was unable to fit a bigger PSU inside.

However, there will be much guessing - so what about posting a picture of the PC cabinet interior?

 

[Gang Sabre]

^ That would be very interesting, although I suspect the HDD's are going to be hot, you might get away with liquid cooling as an exhaust fan. Not sure if you're into hard modding, but a hole in the door might be an option for your Gpu. I'm sure you knew this already, but there you go.

 

[Tekguy0]

Yeah, and check lenghtwise too. I have had cabinets that I was unable to fit a bigger PSU inside.

However, there will be much guessing - so what about posting a picture of the PC cabinet interior?

The case is an interesting design where the panel with the Mobo and drives and PSU (basically everything) slides out with a handle on the back. I will post pics tomorrow or later.

 

[Tekguy0]

^ That would be very interesting, although I suspect the HDD's are going to be hot, you might get away with liquid cooling as an exhaust fan. Not sure if you're into hard modding, but a hole in the door might be an option for your Gpu. I'm sure you knew this already, but there you go.

I am using the iGPU (RX Vega 8), on the APU, and there is no option to mount a liquid cooling system because there is one 80mm fan mount in a separate compartment of the case behind the optical drives. I am not into hard modding. One thing I did just think about was the front panel connector (power button/leds), since its all in one proprietary connector. I will probably have to do a bit of modifying there...