Help me with my homemade desktop?
Monday, June 14th, 2010 at
1:35 pm
Im making my own new desktop. I have a very old gateway 2000 year model with windows xp 1998 on it. Could i take out the cd – drive from it and use it today? And what about the fan in it? Im just wondering b.c that will save me more money and im not sure if its compatible with todays technology
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you could scavenge some parts, the CD drive will be 40 pin IDE and the case fan is still standard
You could take out the cd-drive but its probably slow compared to today’s drives. A good cd-rom today will only cost you about $20 on eBay. If your talking about the processor fan. It depends on the model of processor your using. The cooling unit of processors have changed alot in the past 10 years. If your talking about a general cooling fan, it will probably be compatible.
It depends on if your new motherboard has EIDE connectors, or just SATA. The CD rom would probably be a little out dated, but may work if the connections are the same. As far as the fan, which fan are you talking about? If it is just a fan on the side of the case, it may work you would have to look at the connectors to see if they are the same. Some fans have a feedback signal to tell the motherboard that the fan is running so you will not get an error the BIOS runs. Sometimes you can disable this feature in the BIOS.
well if your going to take them out of an old computer you might as well look for better newer ones on ebay, I’m sure you’ll find some really cheap ones that will be compatible with your mobo. I’ll bet you’ll find them for under 20 bucks. For the cd-drive if it doesnt have dvd compatible you probably wont even need it, but if you still want you would probably need a ide to sata converter, for the fan you probably could use it, just give it a really good clean and check to see that it fits right on the motherboard and in the pin connector. GOOD LUCK!