Northern Micro Spirit

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I picked this up at the thrift store a few years ago, despite its being a Pentium 4 system. Initially my plans were to use it for audio processing in the LER studio, although those plans didn't materialize. It became the slideshow computer for a while, and is infamously one of two systems I launched across the room while broadcasting live for misbehaving (I later found out this had to do with the onboard ITE secondary IDE controller).
Of course, the case was pretty beat up from this. I managed to bend it back into enough of a shape that the cover would fit and the power switch would work. It was sidelined for a while before being ultimately used for a home theater PC. I installed an NVidia GeForce 310 video card so I could have the HDMI output.

Not too long after doing so, I picked the Gigabyte motherboard and CPU out of a scrapped system and replaced the existing Pentium 4 hardware and NVidia video card with it. So far, it is working nicely, and it runs much quieter and cooler now.

Somewhere along the way I received a new case for the home theater computer and returned this one to its original config. It is presently sitting in storage awaiting future use.

Specifications/Notable Features

Case: Generic black thing
Motherboard: ASUS P5GD1-VM
CPU: 3 GHz Intel Pentium 4 HT
RAM: Unknown
Boot/storage drive: Unknown, if it has one
Optical drives: Some random DVD burner
Floppy drives: 3.5" 1.44 MB
Video card: Onboard
Speakers: Has one of those internal speaker things that fits in the 5.25" bay
Operating system: Unknown, if it has one