Redtube of course. 
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holy crap that brings back memories. Had to build one of those monsters when I was in tech school. I remember the instructor telling me that I could upgrade the drive to 20mb but that I would never fill it up so why waste the money. Hahaha
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No kidding huh ! I’m old school 
But seriously when I finally caved and went from win7 to 10, went with my first SSD and holy moly that sh*t fast, boot up bam 
in blink of an eye!
@Dan_the_Man gonna love it!
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For installing it on a new or different system, only Retail (not OEM) license holders qualify. I do not think that either Win 7 or 8 licenses are (still) available. Beware of offers on the internet. Many are counterfeit.
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That article has a good point. Damn Bill Gates!
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06, damn I still got a box full of floppy’s around here somewhere,
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I think I have a 1200 and 2400 baud modem somewhere around here…
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Used to love dial up death matches with DN3D.
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How about Descent …
With a SpaceOrb360
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Yeah Think thats going back to the 80’s !
I got a attic full of junk,
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Man, I loved descent 
Also played a lot of Descent II - fun also on LAN
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Loved both of those! I remember playing both at work and having challenges with my co-workers. Back then the at-work rules were pretty lax.
Edit: wasn’t there supposed to be a new updated version of Descent? I remember something about a kickstarter campaign for it
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You are probably fine. Whatever layer count (8 I guess) fr4 ( fiberglass composite, which is what your board is near certainly made of) is very solid.
Issue tends to come from the unfortunate contact between conductive case and say the CPU power controller ( 95 w CPU support at sub 1V, more than a 100 amp, getting into arc welder territory there ).
Now, for the little story, the real embarrassment comes when someone is the shop decides to do after hours side business, sells a machine to a customer, assembles it like that and the customer brings back a half delaminated board in a metal case.
As for overtorquing, I have used the same strategy for 20 years. I use small screwdrivers from Tamiya, can’t overtorque with those and they have low magnetic screw hold which is very useful.
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CPU fan holders ( as in backplate) only really started being a thing around Pentium 4 second gen. Before that, they were only a thing on specialised equipment.
AMD chips had the horrible little hooks on socket for way too long ( until am2 if my memory serves me right)
Needless to say, the slot processors did not need them. While they are electrically terrible they were so convenient to install.
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Thanks for all the help my friends. At this point I am waiting on a DVI cable to arrive. Then it will be time to turn it on and…
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I totally forgot about them! I once had some pentium (P3?) and I bought that particular one because you could overclock it muchg better. Probably because of the cooling i guess.
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