Got more stuff in today - I'll start with this:
1. Optical serial mouse by ARTEC - it's one of those weird mice that only works on a special metal pad. It was given to me by an older gentleman who used to work in hardware and retired back in 2001. He kept is as a memento since he payed a lot of $$$ for it back in the day. He then passed it on to me, and now I use it on my 386 rig. It's great for Dune 2 and Sierra games - way better then the old A4 tech ball mouse I used. When first tested the mouse it was working intermittently so I took it apart and cleaned it - It's a bit more complex then a modern optical mouse, and the sensors are HUGE (there's two of them). Turns out the cable was the culprit and I had to shorten it by two cm.
2. Radeon 9500 128MB - found this baby online on a local ad site and went to pick it up.
Apart from this 9500, I have an utterly destroyed 9700 I got from a recycling center - the reason for it being the 9700 is very rare over here. In fact, for all my years working in IT I have never seen one apart from this scrapped card. I got the 9500 because the PCB and components on both cards are identical, and there's a lot of stuff missing off the 9700. I plan to fix it as a project, but for that I need to know the value/type of SMD components the card originally had - something you can't do from pictures found online.
I know trying to fix the 9700 is insanity, and all the hard work might just turn it from a dead card with missing parts to a complete dead one, but the state I found it in saddened me so much that I want to try. It's also a great test of my soldering skills. If nothing, I'll get a decent looking dead 9700 I can put in my video card showcase (the car's heatsink and fan, not pictured, are in good shape). Just look at how many parts are missing:
3. ASUS Radeon 9600PRO - got this from the same guy I bought the 9500 from. Payed 10 euro for both.
4. Athlon XP 3000+ 2100MHz, 200MHz FSB:
5. Athlon XP 3200+ 2333MHz, 14x166Mhz - I didn't even know this model existed - I tought the 2.2GHz 11x200MHz model I have in my XP rig was the fastest - seems I was wrong. It also gets me wondering what version of the 3200+ @philscomputerlab used in his AMD vs Intel benchmark series.
6. Top-of-the-line socket 939 kit: Athlon 64 X2 4600+ 2400MHz dual core + Asus A8N-SLI-Premium + 2GB Kingston CL2 DDR400 - I got these babies (for free) from a friend who's PC I upgraded today. As you can tell his machine was cutting edge back in the day - I remember building it for him and just staring dumbfounded at how fast it was. He ran 2x6800GT cards on it witch sadly both died. Next week I'm hoping to upgrade another friend's LGA 1156 i5 760 rig, since I don't have any LGA1156 parts in my collection.