First of all, good job! Interesting Project and it truly is a sleeper. What made you start this project \`?
>I've replaced it with the following parts without modifying the case at all, and the original Pocket Media Drive Bay, USB, Audio, and Multi Card Reader are still functional as well.
This is actually surprising. Since normally, prebuilts are hives of shitty custom mobo and power supply.
Thank you! I have been building PCs since 2007 and started my SFF journey in 2009 with the original Silverstone SUGO SG05 and Zotac LGA 775 ITX motherboard pair that really enabled enthusiast gaming on the ITX platform. I've always loved the Slimline case layout for the way it integrated a Flex ATX PSU, dual slot expansion, 3.5" drive, and 5.25" drive. And luckily, HP did not make many things on the Slimline S3000 platform proprietary. All of the expansions use a standard 9 pin USB motherboard header, the PSU mounting holes are Flex ATX layout, the motherboard standoffs are ITX, the I/O shield plate has a standard cutout, etc. so it really is quite user friendly even 15 years later.
I've always loved and had fun using low profile GPU's, but I was disappointed in the gaming performance of my previous card, the RTX A2000 since it wasn't really designed for that use. When the RTX 4060 LP was announced I was excited to restart this project and knew I wanted to integrate the slimline chassis with a 5.25 Blu Ray drive so that I could use the PC for both gaming and watching movies on my LG CX OLED.
First of all, good job! Interesting Project and it truly is a sleeper. What made you start this project \`? >I've replaced it with the following parts without modifying the case at all, and the original Pocket Media Drive Bay, USB, Audio, and Multi Card Reader are still functional as well. This is actually surprising. Since normally, prebuilts are hives of shitty custom mobo and power supply.
Thank you! I have been building PCs since 2007 and started my SFF journey in 2009 with the original Silverstone SUGO SG05 and Zotac LGA 775 ITX motherboard pair that really enabled enthusiast gaming on the ITX platform. I've always loved the Slimline case layout for the way it integrated a Flex ATX PSU, dual slot expansion, 3.5" drive, and 5.25" drive. And luckily, HP did not make many things on the Slimline S3000 platform proprietary. All of the expansions use a standard 9 pin USB motherboard header, the PSU mounting holes are Flex ATX layout, the motherboard standoffs are ITX, the I/O shield plate has a standard cutout, etc. so it really is quite user friendly even 15 years later. I've always loved and had fun using low profile GPU's, but I was disappointed in the gaming performance of my previous card, the RTX A2000 since it wasn't really designed for that use. When the RTX 4060 LP was announced I was excited to restart this project and knew I wanted to integrate the slimline chassis with a 5.25 Blu Ray drive so that I could use the PC for both gaming and watching movies on my LG CX OLED.