Skyscraper wrote:

This beautie. New in Box. ~23 Euro buyout. Also included 2x550 MHz P3 550 (used), Unspecified amount of memory (used). […]
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This beautie. New in Box. ~23 Euro buyout.
Also included 2x550 MHz P3 550 (used), Unspecified amount of memory (used).

Seems someone planned a build a long time ago...

How much RAM can that baby take? I'm taking a wild guess at 2gb??

kithylin wrote:

$6.50 off ebay, works fine. No performance tests yet, just basic functionality tests. Popped it in my AMD K6-III/550 machine, ca […]
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$6.50 off ebay, works fine. No performance tests yet, just basic functionality tests. Popped it in my AMD K6-III/550 machine, came on fine and went through some basic dos test software just fine, even ran a color palette test and it went fine.

That vga connector is a little rusty. Where's it been stored, under the sea? 😀

Good deal on that ET6000, just clean the connector and you are set.

Blurredman wrote:

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That vga connector is a little rusty. Where's it been stored, under the sea? 😀

No idea, but I don't care. It was cheap and it works perfectly fine.

nforce4max wrote:

Good deal on that ET6000, just clean the connector and you are set.

It's just surface rust, I can probably clean it with a little sand paper later.

It's no big deal, but I often wonder how that happens. Fair enough I sometimes suck the end of my USB stick, but I don't suck the VGA port on my graphics card.

Blurredman wrote:

It's no big deal, but I often wonder how that happens. Fair enough I sometimes suck the end of my USB stick, but I don't suck the VGA port on my graphics card.

Low-quality metal and a fairly humid room don't always mix well.

Do the Tseng ET-6000's run faster with 4 RAM chips? Anybody ever see those upgrade chips loose?

Blurredman wrote:

Fair enough I sometimes suck the end of my USB stick,

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Hahah. Glad I'm not the only one that saw that 'out of context.'

4 x 3DFX Voodoo3 3500 5.5ns 183mhz 16MB AGP (1999)

A little upgrade for my 'workhorse' HP DC7800 tower...
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz 12MB 1333MHz Socket LGA 775 SLAWQ (2008)

NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS - Hercules 3D Prophet II GTS 32MB AGP (NV15) (NOS) (2000)

Gravis GamePad Pro (NOS) (1998)

Intel i740 - Real3D StarFighter SFP-136 16MB PCI (1998)

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How much RAM can that baby take? I'm taking a wild guess at 2gb??

Yes max is 2 GB but I am not sure if I need ECC memory if I go over 1GB or if 4 normal 512mb modules will work.
The card is still at the post office but I will pick it up tomorrow if I get home early enough.

And for those who had questions about what OS this system will run, it will run Windows 2000.
When it comes to CPUs I will probably see if I can get a couple of Coppermine 1000@750+ CPUs on slotkets to play nice.
The board does have a hidden 133 MHz FSB option but I doubt it is stable.

Hey Artex, Iv got one of those Gravis Gamepads, how good are they and what games are good to play with it? I used to play Midtown Madness and Motocross madness with it as a kid, but those are the only kind of games I can imagine playing with it.

ODwilly wrote:

Hey Artex, Iv got one of those Gravis Gamepads, how good are they and what games are good to play with it? I used to play Midtown Madness and Motocross madness with it as a kid, but those are the only kind of games I can imagine playing with it.

These controllers are very basic... And I mean VERY. No fancy schmancy vibration or anything else that current controllers have. BUT, it definitely beat using the keyboard for platformers like Commander Keen, Jazz Jackrabbit, etc. It was also ok for fighting games like Rise of the Robots, Mortal Kombat, etc. For racing games I actually preferred using the keyboard... But that's just me. 😀

Oof, racing games with a keyboard are so spastic! Guess it's not much better with a digital controller.

So how about a Namco Jogcon?

Some racing games play fine with a keyboard; the "ricer" era Need for Speed games, for example, are no better with a wheel than they are with a keyboard. You definitely can't play a racing sim properly without a wheel though.

Got this odd Geforce 3 ti200 64mb.

Punny little cooler which should justify why it has by default lower clocks than a standard Gf3 ti200.

Works perfectly fine nonetheless.

Going tomorrow to pick up an IBM 5151 monitor. Finally!!!!!!!!

[quote="Artex"]4 x 3DFX Voodoo3 3500 5.5ns 183mhz 16MB AGP (1999)

You do know those Compaq V3 3500's without the TV tuner are pretty common right? There's a seller on ebay who's had hundreds of them for sale for a few years now. There's not a lot of reason to hoard those.

Yup, got em for $10 each.

I've only ever seen 3500s with the TV tuner on ebay. When I search now I only see ones with the TV tuner and missing the blue cable/box.

Got any links?

joacim wrote:

I've only ever seen 3500s with the TV tuner on ebay. When I search now I only see ones with the TV tuner and missing the blue cable/box.

Got any links?

Here's where I got mine:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/147286-001-147908-001 … =item27b06841ee

Kind of a generic search, but the keyword "Compaq" is key as it denotes the 5.5ns / 183Mhz Compaq OEM cards. You can see the Compaq sticker on these.