The components:

• Intel Pentium III 700/100/256 FCPGA

• MSI BX Master motherboard, i440 BX chipset

• Creative 3D Blaster GeForce2 GTS

• 128 MB Corsair CAS2 memory

• IBM 75GXP 30 GB HDD

• Golden Orb fan (applied with Arctic Silver thermal compound)

• SB PCI 128

• Samsung SC-148F, 48x CD-ROM

• Intel PRO/100+ Management adapter

• MSI MS6905 FCPGA Converter

The Case and the fans:

The extremely cool arrows means where I want to place the fans and how I want them to do their job.

As you can see it’s a very basic ATX case. But I like it anyway though I would prefer it a bit bigger in all directions. My thought was that there are two fans sucking in air and one blowing out the warm air.  The side-fan would also cool the video card and the motherboard. After reading some tests and looking around I decided to go for Papst fans. Their fans have a much lower noise level than most of the other fan-manufacturers. Apparently they are known to make high-quality products as well.  Here in Sweden they cost almost twice the price than for an example Sunons fans. For sucking in cool air two 80 mm fans should be enough. And on top a 92 mm fan sounded sensible. Thanks to Tobias at TJcomputer.com for the quick delivery. Here they are:

All three of them come with a 4-pin connector. Every connector has, as you can see below has an extra connector :)