Part 1: Parts & Planning:

   Say one day you’re looking around your cramped house, and you realize that your last computer upgrade has left you with an excess of spare parts lying around. Motherboard and CPU, maybe an old 20gb hard drive, a few sticks of ram, a power supply and maybe a CD Drive. What’s a guy to do?

   Well if you are like me, you look for some poor sole to pawn this obsolete junk off of! Ok just kidding, but if you’ve already tried that to no avail, how about making something to take to a LAN party to show off? A nice dedicated server for running Total Annihilation ;)

   But of course we can’t just toss the parts into a standard case, where’s the fun in that?

   Well lets get right to it. Here is the list of parts I found I had lying around.

Internal bits:

• Motherboard:  GA-7N400 pro2, will need to be sent back for warrantee work, but still works.

• CPU: AMD 2500 Barton, a great overclocker

• Ram: 2X512gb of 3200 generic ram

• Hard drive: 25gb IBM

• Video Card: Geforce 4 4600ti (I preordered this card back in the day, and only just replaced it with a new 6800GT)

• Sony PSone monitor (using M Pro’s tutorial for use with a PC )

   A while back I intended to modify my Aopen HX08 so I bought some water-cooling supplies but replaced the case and basically forgot about the parts. No sense in letting them go to waste now!