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- Mar 20, 2019
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- Australia
| Processor | AMD Ryzen 5 2600 |
|---|---|
| Motherboard | MSI B450 Gaming Plus |
| Cooling | Cryorig H7 |
| Memory | Kingston HyperX Predator DDR4 3200MHz 2x8GB |
| Video Card(s) | ASUS Radeon RX 580 8GB Dual-fan OC Edition |
| Storage | Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe 250GB |
| Case | NZXT H500 |
| Power Supply | Corsair RM650x Gold 650W |
| Mouse | HyperX Pulsefire FPS Pro |
| Keyboard | MaxKeyboard Nighthawk X8 (Cherry Brown) |
| Software | Kubuntu |
Specs
I’ve always been fascinated with PC case mods, resprays, restorations and whatever else to do with PC customisations, and I’ve recently had an itch to do a respray on an old PC. I’ve never done this before, and I wanted a little project to learn with.
When I was gifted an old 2005/6 era Dell Dimension 5150 with a big ol’ case, I thought this was the perfect place to start.
This is an interesting PC in that it is a full size case in BTX form factor. I’d seen BTX PCs in the past from the mid 2000s, though they were always small form factor. This kind of oddware is interesting to me because even though it has a not-so-interesting Pentium D CPU and a X300SE GPU, the fact that it is BTX makes this kind of special to me.
I remember reading articles in the early 2000s about BTX and how it was going to replace ATX and and everyone should be prepared to upgrade their cases and motherboards some time soon to get on-board with the new standard. However it never took off and I was always kind of left wondering why.
For this project I had to get a few things:
Original condition, outside:
Original condition, inside (dust warning!):
Components, dirty:
Components, clean:
- Model: Dell Dimension 5150
- CPU: Intel Pentium D 820 @ 2.8GHz
- RAM: 512MB (2x256MB) PC2-4200 DDR2 @ 533MHz
- Video Card: ATI Radeon X300SE w/ 64MB DDR VRAM
- Motherboard: Dell Connolly E187242 F2. BTX, LGA 775 w/ 945G chipset
I’ve always been fascinated with PC case mods, resprays, restorations and whatever else to do with PC customisations, and I’ve recently had an itch to do a respray on an old PC. I’ve never done this before, and I wanted a little project to learn with.
When I was gifted an old 2005/6 era Dell Dimension 5150 with a big ol’ case, I thought this was the perfect place to start.
This is an interesting PC in that it is a full size case in BTX form factor. I’d seen BTX PCs in the past from the mid 2000s, though they were always small form factor. This kind of oddware is interesting to me because even though it has a not-so-interesting Pentium D CPU and a X300SE GPU, the fact that it is BTX makes this kind of special to me.
I remember reading articles in the early 2000s about BTX and how it was going to replace ATX and and everyone should be prepared to upgrade their cases and motherboards some time soon to get on-board with the new standard. However it never took off and I was always kind of left wondering why.
For this project I had to get a few things:
- Sandpaper of various grit size, both wet and dry. I ended up using 600 grit wet sandpaper for fixing a couple of drips on the first panel before reapplying more top coat paint.
- An electric drill and drill bits for drilling out the back panel case rivets.
- Pop rivet gun and rivets for re-applying the back panel after painting.
- Spray paints – undercoat for plastic, undercoat for metal, and top cans as well.
- Sanding cork.
- Spray paint breathing mask and goggles – very important!
Original condition, outside:
Original condition, inside (dust warning!):
Components, dirty:
Components, clean:
. that's just what we called them 
