looz
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This was requested in purchase thread so why not! Not a very involved one, but anyhow.
Starting point:

Start of tear-down:

Old motherboard out:

New stuff:

This BIOS flashback was quite frightening - but worked!

Mass storage in:

Not much in the way of clearance, but as long as there's some!



Old vs new:

It posts!

Fan in, this was quite a wrestle. Top fan had no clearance to spin anymore, PSU 24pin didn't reach... so I just detached the PSU and it just lies there further towards the front.

All components in!

Not a terrible upgrade in terms of CPU oomph - Time spy comparison. Also the first IMC I have which boots fine with XMP, and seems in fact stable. But I'll tweak it further later. Memory tab:
Starting point:

Start of tear-down:

Old motherboard out:

New stuff:

This BIOS flashback was quite frightening - but worked!

Mass storage in:

Not much in the way of clearance, but as long as there's some!



Old vs new:

It posts!

Fan in, this was quite a wrestle. Top fan had no clearance to spin anymore, PSU 24pin didn't reach... so I just detached the PSU and it just lies there further towards the front.

All components in!

Not a terrible upgrade in terms of CPU oomph - Time spy comparison. Also the first IMC I have which boots fine with XMP, and seems in fact stable. But I'll tweak it further later. Memory tab:
