So a million years ago (2010) I was a pretty early adopter of the Silverstone SG06. Over the years as parts needed changing (like a PSU which strangely stopped working after swallowing a glass of iced tea, early mobo's which couldn't push the i7 like they promised etc) it became rather a patchwork of 'just enough to get by, for now' more like the Model T from the Beverly Hillbillies than anything super trick worth taking pictures and posting in a thread. Still my daily driver, still running strong, still love that case, but its MSI AM1i + AMD 5350 drivetrain is getting a little long in the tooth these days, so I wandered over to my local electronics surplus store hoping for something nifty to move it over into so it could become my garage computer.
And there I found this little piece of gold. Originally it served as the crossover unit for I.M Fried (IMF) Model H speakers, basically regarded as the first of the modern woofer/satellite speaker systems everyone uses today, circa the mid 70's or so-
Over the years the original internals had been replaced with more modern (likely 1980's era) units so I wasn't destroying a museum piece, the size is right there in the Goldilocks zone for a fanless/low power rig at 12" x 12" x 4" (ok, fine, I read the rules- 30cm x 30cm x 10cm) and oh all that airflow. Add to it the only switch on the front being labelled "Impulse Control" I just couldn't resist... likely due to my, ah , low impulse control
And there I found this little piece of gold. Originally it served as the crossover unit for I.M Fried (IMF) Model H speakers, basically regarded as the first of the modern woofer/satellite speaker systems everyone uses today, circa the mid 70's or so-
Over the years the original internals had been replaced with more modern (likely 1980's era) units so I wasn't destroying a museum piece, the size is right there in the Goldilocks zone for a fanless/low power rig at 12" x 12" x 4" (ok, fine, I read the rules- 30cm x 30cm x 10cm) and oh all that airflow. Add to it the only switch on the front being labelled "Impulse Control" I just couldn't resist... likely due to my, ah , low impulse control