Yeah i'm pretty sure this was the exact era and why i just threw any machine like this out year later.
Nothing notable from this era. The previous gen with the P4 1.8 was if you're into keeping somewhat notable processors. And the next notable is stuff from the Core2 era.
Overclocking. Like the Celeron 300A. It got pretty high QC rates from it's price point. Along with all the motherboard manufacturers having a solid footing for that era at the time working out the previous transition headaches. Not saying the best. More notable as it lets you experience everything without instantly frying the components providing you didn't get pre-toasted equipment. Then it all languished a bit until the Core2 Q6600 from my memory.
I have an Alienware case that's even worse than that. It's mostly toolless, but such a massive PITA to work on. And there's so much ridiculous, unnecessary framing to support the internal components that there's very little room to put things.
We got pallets upon pallets of replacement motherboards for the Dells we had on our campus from that fiasco. I swapped out hundreds of them.
Eh, I still found it
I resoldered dozens of caps on failed servers and server I/O boards a few years back. Had several servers drop their arrays due to a failed 1500mF cap on their controllers, and I figured out that you can tack on a 1000mF and a 500mF cap (I couldn't source any 1500mF caps locally) to get 1500 mF total. Was a hero for a while when I recovered hundreds of GB of data.
