A comparison of an ancient Intel 486 processor(right) against the new AMD Athlon X2 dualcore socket 939 processor(left). Look at the size! The old 486 is actually bigger than the new dual core processor!
A look at the heat sink and fans, on the left is the for the 486, on the right is for the dual core...
Top down view of the same thing, right hand side is a monster...
Processor and video card installed.
The DDR2 memory modules, OCZ PC3200 Premium Series, 512MB x 4 = 2GB!!
The memory installed in the motherboard, they're practically touching each other...
Sliding in the motherboard tray, notice the tiny gap between the case and the fan, and video card. The heat sink and fan is standard issue that came with the boxed version of the processor. If I were to use a more fancy heat sink/fan, it most likely won't fit...
Motherboard fully slided in, and font panel controls plugged in.
The gap between the CD ROM drive and the power supply, barely have room for cables. Planning have become very important for this case... I installed the CD drive first, then tried to plug in the cables - it just didn't work. I had to unscrew the drive from the mount, slide it out completely to plug in the cables - I actually did this twice... What a pain in the butt!
The first HDD installed(74GB 10K RPM WD Raptor) - on top of the CD drive. There's a 3.5" bay under the CD drive, but there's no way I'm going to remove the CD drive for the 3rd time... So I looked around and found some old drive rails in my box of tricks, exactly what I needed. Gotta save those old parts...
The 500GB WD twins(RAID 1) in it's cage... 
The drive cage installed in case.
Plug in power and boot...
Front panel showing the CPU temperature.Last night, the adult students had dinner at the Dave and Buster, and we had a lot of fun playing the arcade games.
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