I got this old Dell Precision 410 workstation from work many years ago when they were cleaning
out old hardware they didn't need anymore. It was a pretty nice case so I decided to try to
make it fit some standard ATX parts.
I got this old Dell Precision 410 workstation from work many years ago when they were cleaning
out old hardware they didn't need anymore. It was a pretty nice case so I decided to try to
make it fit some standard ATX parts.
I hacked this thing up pretty good to make it work and I wasn't particularly clean about it.
I was pretty happy with the metal pieces I fit in the I/O area to make an ATX motherboard
I/O plate fit. The power supply area not so much. They only left a small opening for the
power plug where their power supply had it while mine was in a different location. So I
roughly cut the area open. Sharp edges near a AC power wire probably wasn't the best idea
but I never had any accidents with it.
The Dell motherboard was pretty large and used some slid-in tabs instead of normal stand-offs.
So I had to drill holes for some normal stand-offs into the metal back of the case. The
plastic side covers that up. I hacked together some wires to fit in the proprietary front
panel cable. And you can just make out where I cut open the front to fit a 120mm intake fan.
The motherboard here is a Soltek K8AN2E-GR14. I had a good history of buying motherboards from
companies just before they closed up. This is one of the few motherboards that would work well
in this case though. The memory above the CPU keeps the heatsink below the power supply when
it's down into position. And it also puts the heatsink with the fan blowing towards the rear.
Normal positions for AMD sockets would put the CPU higher up which would cause problems. I
believe I was using an AMD Turion 64 in this last time it was running which is probably what
is still under there.