{"id":92,"date":"2019-02-20T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T13:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.8.122\/?page_id=92"},"modified":"2025-06-10T11:19:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T10:19:32","slug":"1996-ibm-sleeper-pc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/retro.placeofgeek.com\/index.php\/1996-ibm-sleeper-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM 300GL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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I Purchased an 1999 IBM 300GL from Italy!!!
Pentium III 500
15Gb HDD
64MB Ram
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I love the old look of Beige PC cases, and when the opportunity came up to buy a IBM 300GL with the blue accents on, i jumped at the chance to buy one from Italy!

I started stripping out the insides and ended up with the following

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Removed old motherboard Power Supply and cards (have kept them, may come in handy one day \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and the upgrade begins.. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New Noctua fan in front of case<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I\/O Back plate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Inside<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Power and LED wiring change<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Updates to the internals are

1: Rewired power switch and Hard disk LED (old power switch had 4 wires?) now updated to modern 2 wire cable

2:) Installed 2 x USB 3 ports on front bottom of case (see pic 17)
3:) Removed old Hard Drive and fan and speaker from front of case
4:) Installed new Noctua 80mm redux fan (sucking air out) in front of case
5:) Installed a 5.25 hot swap caddy (2 x SSD) in drive bay and 1 x 4TB drive
6:) Replaced Windows and Pentium sticker with NOS stickers
7:) Installed Corsair SP-450 PSU into original PSU bracket
8:) Gutted a 2001 CDRW drive and put in a hot swap caddy<\/s>
9:) Installed a Blu-ray Drive Pioneer BDC-207D and modified bezel to beige

NEW SPECS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gigabyte MATX AB350M Gaming

Ryzen 5 2600 Gen 2<\/s>
Now has a Ryzen 5 Pro 3400GE, stripped from a HP 705 G5 as i wanted a lower TDP, now 35w compared to 65W still quick though with 6 cores @ 3.3Ghz

Corsair CMK16GX4M2B3200C16 Vengeance LPX16 GB DDR 4 (XMP profile 1)
Geforce 1050 TI Superclock 3GB
Modded with front USB 3 ports and more Noctua fans (60mm)
2 x Noctua 40mm fans in side of case venting out

I also found a original 1997 IBM Screensaver \ud83d\ude42 that runs on Windows 10!
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