Superpuppy Cases

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Superpuppy Cases

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Does anybody else use this type of case ? (See "What is a Superpuppy" post for pics). Does anybody else want one ? I still have The Superpuppy 4 case, which I may rebuild Superpuppy 2 into; but I also have 1 other one that is still untouched that I have no use for.

You would have to be pretty serious about building an extreme AT to bear the cost of shipping to wherever you live; but if someone is interested I have 1 available. (At no charge except shipping)
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RE: Superpuppy Cases

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For those of you with a lethargic mouse... :lol:

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RE: Superpuppy Cases

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The centre one doesn't count. Only the end two have all the neat clip in features that these cases come with. And though I don't like double posting, here are the pics demonstrating what I mean.

When I go "dumpster diving", I look for a particular type of AT case.
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I like this kind of case for a couple of reasons. First, it is the best engineered AT case that I have ever seen, coming with just about everything but the 5.25 bays designed to be "clip in".
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Here we see 1) The "clip in" front panel leds and switches - (which clip to the case so there are no wires running to the actual front panel); 2) The "clip in" HDD mount; 3) The "clip in" Floppy mounts; 4) The "clip in" Front Chassis Fan and Speaker mount; 5) A choice of 2 different not bad looking "clip on" Front Panels; and 6) The "clip in" Mobo Tray. (Pulling the handle down disengages the locking teeth, allowing the tray to be removed).

The second reason I like these cases is the HDD mount location.
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I use 7200 RPM HDDs and they run HOT !! The further they are from the processor, the better I like it. The location used in this type of case, up at the top in the back; immediately under the power supply is what I consider to be Ideal; because it allows me to make cooling arrangements that evacuate all heat generated by the HDDs from the case without it ever affecting other components.

See my "What is a Superpuppy" post for further details and photos.
Superpuppy 3
K6-3+ 450 ACZ (6x100)
DFI K6BV3+/66 Rev B2 (2 Meg) w/ 2x28mm Chipset Fans
2x256 Meg PC 133 Hynix SDRAM
1x 20G Maxtor (7200)
2x 80G Maxtor (7200) Ducted w/ 2x486 Fans Mount
52/24/52/16 LG CDR/RW/DVD
8/4/3/12/24/16/32 LG Super Multi
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SB Audigy 1 MP3 Sound
CMD 649 IDE Controller
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Re: RE: Superpuppy Cases

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Jim wrote:though I don't like double posting, here are the pics demonstrating what I mean.
Fibber! :P :lol: how else are you gonna' boost your post count? :twisted:

Have you ever considered 'additonal' exhaust/intake ports in your SP cases?
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Well, the ducted HDD is an additional exhaust port, and like I said in the post on Superpuppy-3, I did cut an additional intake slot in the recessed part of the front panel, that the pictures don't show. But apart from that the only place left to cut an additional intake is the base of the machine. (I don't like messing up my cases tops and sides where it shows.) The Superpuppy 4 case does have an additional small intake in the floor of the machine, because that one has a built in auxillary power supply, w/ its own built in cooling system, that was intended to power the circuit that I designed to prevent the HDD master slave switching system from operating while the machine was powered up. Don't forget that machine was designed to have switches instead of jumpers controlling the master slave relationship of all its drives. (Idea was to enable me to switch which drive was the primary master so as to enable me to setup more "C" partitions.) If I go w/ Cake's idea of ducted cooling for the chip coolers, then there is going to be either an 80mm or a 120mm exhaust fan mounted on the machines floor blowing out the bottom. There is also room at the case back to setup some sort of fan about 1 inch wide by 4 inches vertically at the lower left side; but I am not going to pursue that unless I find temps getting higher than I like. Am thinking of replacing the dead Castlewood Orb, w/ a switchable 3.5 bay temp readout display that has 2 readouts, both of which have 2 sensors that can be switched from one to the other.
Superpuppy 3
K6-3+ 450 ACZ (6x100)
DFI K6BV3+/66 Rev B2 (2 Meg) w/ 2x28mm Chipset Fans
2x256 Meg PC 133 Hynix SDRAM
1x 20G Maxtor (7200)
2x 80G Maxtor (7200) Ducted w/ 2x486 Fans Mount
52/24/52/16 LG CDR/RW/DVD
8/4/3/12/24/16/32 LG Super Multi
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SB Audigy 1 MP3 Sound
CMD 649 IDE Controller
NEC USB 2 Card
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RE: Re: RE: Superpuppy Cases

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I like the ducted airflow to processor idea... sunbeam make an 'overclockers kit' which does exactly that ;)
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How much would shipping be to Illinois zip 60030?
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No idea; but if you are patient w/ me, I'll find out. Glad to see you over here. Nice place this.
Superpuppy 3
K6-3+ 450 ACZ (6x100)
DFI K6BV3+/66 Rev B2 (2 Meg) w/ 2x28mm Chipset Fans
2x256 Meg PC 133 Hynix SDRAM
1x 20G Maxtor (7200)
2x 80G Maxtor (7200) Ducted w/ 2x486 Fans Mount
52/24/52/16 LG CDR/RW/DVD
8/4/3/12/24/16/32 LG Super Multi
ATI 9000 aiw Radeon AGP
SB Audigy 1 MP3 Sound
CMD 649 IDE Controller
NEC USB 2 Card
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Not a whole lot of K6-2 posts so I can't add a whole lot, That'll change if I can ever get a K6-3+ for a decent price.
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Actually KGB is working w/ a K6-2 500 AFX OCed to 550. Should check out his posts. Could also run Everest and Sandra benchmarks to see what you are getting; and post them. People will be interested here.
Superpuppy 3
K6-3+ 450 ACZ (6x100)
DFI K6BV3+/66 Rev B2 (2 Meg) w/ 2x28mm Chipset Fans
2x256 Meg PC 133 Hynix SDRAM
1x 20G Maxtor (7200)
2x 80G Maxtor (7200) Ducted w/ 2x486 Fans Mount
52/24/52/16 LG CDR/RW/DVD
8/4/3/12/24/16/32 LG Super Multi
ATI 9000 aiw Radeon AGP
SB Audigy 1 MP3 Sound
CMD 649 IDE Controller
NEC USB 2 Card
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Post by tazwegion »

Warlord why not take the K62@600Mhz Challenge? :twisted:

Here's my SiSoft Sandra scores ;)

533@600 Mhz
Dhrystone ALU 1493 MIPS
Whetstone FPU 793 MFLOPS
Integer MMX 1920 it/s
Float 3DNow! 2524 it/s

500@600 Mhz
Dhrystone ALU 1479 MIPS
Whetstone FPU 780 MFLOPS
Integer MMX 1909 it/s
Float 3DNow! 2518 it/s
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tazwegion wrote:Warlord why not take the K62@600Mhz Challenge? :twisted:

Here's my SiSoft Sandra scores ;)

533@600 Mhz
Dhrystone ALU 1493 MIPS
Whetstone FPU 793 MFLOPS
Integer MMX 1920 it/s
Float 3DNow! 2524 it/s

500@600 Mhz
Dhrystone ALU 1479 MIPS
Whetstone FPU 780 MFLOPS
Integer MMX 1909 it/s
Float 3DNow! 2518 it/s
Here's where I stand right now:

475@560 Mhz (4.5x124)
Dhrystone ALU 1138 MIPS
Whetstone FPU 553 MFLOPS
Integer MMX 2531 it/s
Float 3DNow! 3011 it/s
Compaq Presario 4565 -Gigabit GA-5SMM, AFX K6-2 475Mhz OC'd to 560MHz (124fsbx4.5), nVidia Geforce2 MX OC'd 220clock/210memory, 312 RAM, 2x 10GB HDD, blah, blah...
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It doesn't look as though my processor wants to go any faster than this so I can't participate in the challenge...

I guess that's not bad since I only have a stock heatsink with some AS5 on it.
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@ warlord

hey, your int mmx and float 3dnow! numbers really trash taz's setup. I just wonder how you managee to get your system stable with that much oc'ing of your fsb/agp/pci bus!? did you apply any heatsinks on your chipset?

@warlord & taz
could you both run HOT CPU Tester 4.2.2 and also SuperPI "1M" and post results?
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DonPedro wrote:@ warlord

hey, your int mmx and float 3dnow! numbers really trash taz's setup. I just wonder how you managee to get your system stable with that much oc'ing of your fsb/agp/pci bus!? did you apply any heatsinks on your chipset?

@warlord & taz
could you both run HOT CPU Tester 4.2.2 and also SuperPI "1M" and post results?
I was a little surprised by the results as well. I think I'm running 2.4v to the chip so I had to figure out more cooling. What I did is kind of ghetto.

I have the stock heatsink lapped with AS5 and a case fan screwed to the top of it running 12v, I also added an 80mm case fan to the front blowing air in and took stock cpu fan and mounted it to my nVidia heatsink. I also did a variation of rounded IDE cables; I split them into groups of 4 strands, stacked them in layers and ziptied them. Then I rerouted them out of the way.

I'll think about running Pi another day; what's the other program?
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