I just got a Sidewinder Force Feedback Wheel (USB) for 5 bucks.
It's amazing: A very sturdy wheel with a solid build quality and it just works fine with my massive hands.

I've tried some old games like Monster Truck Madness 2 or some NFS games and it's cool.
But it really shines on modern games with FFB support. On F1 2012 I can feel the road on my hands while driving and Gas Guzzlers Extreme lets me feel every impact on my vehicle.

Totally awesome, underrated wheel. Works out of the box on Windows 10 and needs the SideWinder 4.0 software on 98.

I never liked these, because of the footpedals

God Of Gaming wrote:

Found this for cheap locally, supposed to be Quadro4 900 XGL, tho I dont see any markings identifying it as such. Hopefully I can mod it into a GF4 Ti4600

Those are quite valuable cards as-is. I sold a 980 XGL for $200 US recently. The 900 XGL isn't too far off from that. I guess they were used in some kind of workstation back in the day and many are still in use for medical imaging or something along those lines.

As for recent purchases I've made, I saved a pair of Ensoniq Soundscape OPUS cards from a scrap lot today. Got them for a great price. Hopefully when they arrive they'll be intact. They looked alright in the pictures. I really want to find a 2MB Soundscape at some point, but I got both of these for half of the going rate of one OPUS so I'll take a 1MB version for now. 😀

dionb wrote:

The 2320 is an ISA PnP card, with all the headache ISA PnP gives you - but that's no different to the SB Vibra under the pile in […]
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Ozzuneoj wrote:

I agree, the one is a Matrox card. Probably a Mystique. As for the Aztech 2320, I thought I remember reading complaints about getting these set up or something... can't remember. And I don't think they have a real OPL3, but people here have said the FM sounds pretty good anyway.

The 2320 is an ISA PnP card, with all the headache ISA PnP gives you - but that's no different to the SB Vibra under the pile in the middle. I'd only recommend it with a board with good PnP implementation. The AZT2320 contains a legitimate licensed OPL3 implementation (it should even show a tiny OPL logo on the chip).

What can differ is the filters, most Aztechs are pretty 'raw' which you may or may not like.

The card at the upper left that looks sort of like a GF3 is probably a later FX or Quadro variant of some sort, since it has BGA memory.

appiah4 wrote:

The AGP card on the far right lower corner is a Ti200 I think.

The card on the upper right, the PCI VGA, is certainly a card that I would have liked to have, it seems to be a 96-98 era PCI card and those are always interesting to me..

Isn't that the Banshee?

In any event, I see an S3 Trio or Virge PCI card on the bottom under the AWE64 and Zotac, and something else with a lot of DRAM chips below that - probably also a similar S3 card. This is a nice pile for various things 😉

So thanks again for your comments and findings! 😀 Lot arrived today..:

Favorite cards:

OK cards:

Will go again:

Summarized, very good investment 😀

Epic day today!!! Flea market big score!!!

1. MSI MS-6168 VER:2 - 440ZX / 3dfx VooDoo 3 2000 8MB ONBOARD / CREATIVE ES1373 - It needs repairs and a northbridge heatsink. Easy fixes if the board is still alive. We'll see. I never thought that I'll find one.
2. Gigabyte GA-622-16 REV 1.0 / TNT 2 M64 with TURBO SETTING 😁 - interesting card. 160/160 instead of the stock 125/150.
3. Asus GF256/DDR AGP-V6800DDR/32MB (TVR) I wanted a GF256/DDR and I got one 😁
4. Advanced Gravis Ultrasound ACE V1.1 - I wanted a Gravis and I got one.
5. Celeron 500MHz S370.(less epic but what the hell 😁) - maybe I'll need it some time down the line...who knows. I have fond memories tied to Mendocino.

10 EUR for everything 😁 😁 😁

Older find: Leadtek WinFast GeForce 2 PRO 64MB AGP 2842 PCB REV. B - Pics taken before it has been repaired and restored.

Nice findings.

I should be getting some nice retro stuff at the beginning of the next week, on exactly Xmas day - an Acorp 5VIA77 and a Luckytech P5MVP3. Two SS7 boards,both MVP3 sounds like a nice deal to me.

Not really retro but got one of these in the mail today... pretty generic business class HP PS/2 keyboard. Perfect for the HP Elite 8300.

Robert B wrote:

Epic day today!!! Flea market big score!!!

1. MSI MS-6168 VER:2 - 440ZX / 3dfx VooDoo 3 2000 8MB ONBOARD / CREATIVE ES1373 - It needs repairs and a northbridge heatsink. Easy fixes if the board is still alive. We'll see. I never thought that I'll find one.

It also urgently needs some caps replacing. Will probably work fine after that 😀

4. Advanced Gravis Ultrasound ACE V1.1 - I wanted a Gravis and I got one.

Possibly the nicest one in retrospect.

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10 EUR for everything 😁 😁 😁

Hell yeah! 😁

oeuvre wrote:

Not really retro but got one of these in the mail today... pretty generic business class HP PS/2 keyboard. Perfect for the HP El […]
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Not really retro but got one of these in the mail today... pretty generic business class HP PS/2 keyboard. Perfect for the HP Elite 8300.

Those are one of my favorite keyboards. I'm using a USB model on my Windows 7 computer right now. Also, I've never seen a PS/2 model with the Windows 8/10 logo key. The newest PS/2 one I've seen had the Vista/7 logo key, so that's pretty interesting.

dionb wrote:

Robert B wrote:

Epic day today!!! Flea market big score!!!

1. MSI MS-6168 VER:2 - 440ZX / 3dfx VooDoo 3 2000 8MB ONBOARD / CREATIVE ES1373 - It needs repairs and a northbridge heatsink. Easy fixes if the board is still alive. We'll see. I never thought that I'll find one.

It also urgently needs some caps replacing. Will probably work fine after that 😀

I saw those bulged no name little bastards. 😁

For testing purposes I'll solder what I have in my box of caps and if the board works I'll order the good stuff: Nichicon, Panasonic or Rubycon.

I keep my fingers crossed! 😀

Robert B wrote:

Epic day today!!! Flea market big score!!! […]
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Epic day today!!! Flea market big score!!!

1. MSI MS-6168 VER:2 - 440ZX / 3dfx VooDoo 3 2000 8MB ONBOARD / CREATIVE ES1373 - It needs repairs and a northbridge heatsink. Easy fixes if the board is still alive. We'll see. I never thought that I'll find one.
2. Gigabyte GA-622-16 REV 1.0 / TNT 2 M64 with TURBO SETTING 😁 - interesting card. 160/160 instead of the stock 125/150.
3. Asus GF256/DDR AGP-V6800DDR/32MB (TVR) I wanted a GF256/DDR and I got one 😁
4. Advanced Gravis Ultrasound ACE V1.1 - I wanted a Gravis and I got one.
5. Celeron 500MHz S370.(less epic but what the hell 😁) - maybe I'll need it some time down the line...who knows. I have fond memories tied to Mendocino.

10 EUR for everything 😁 😁 😁

Older find: Leadtek WinFast GeForce 2 PRO 64MB AGP 2842 PCB REV. B - Pics taken before it has been repaired and restored.

Wonderful lot to find, from my point of view I'd describe that as "jackpot", and probably the lowest price anyone has paid for a GUS in quite a while 😁 It looks like the MS6168 has some bashed traces around the BIOS chip / memory socket, but that might be the water droplets? That's a shame if they are damaged, I really hope you get it working.

I have that same Leadtek GF2 Pro / TI 64MB card - if you have a read of the reviews, the blower type cooling they were aiming for didn't really work out and it's the hottest of all GF2 cards with the stock heatsink. I put some tape over the heatsink fins area so that air has to push over them to get out, which I think helps. Also beware the caps? The first time I powered up mine, one of the big caps in the upper left of the board exploded. It works after those were replaced though.

In my case three caps poped one after another in the same area. GSC RE 1000uf 6.3V. The smaller ones. I soldered three brands of caps on the Leadtek GF2 Pro and none worked until I saw that one of the Sanyo OS-CON caps had a bad older joint. It was showing screen tearing and dubious artifacts. After I soldered the OS-CON cap the card ran like a dream.

The GUS ACE 1.1 was 2.2 EUR to be exact. 😀

After the Holidays I'll inspect the MS-6168 and I'll report the damage. If it is fixable you can be sure that will give it my best. Those are water droplets I think. (Left side of the Bios chip). I'll post better pictures at a later date.

KCompRoom2000 wrote:

oeuvre wrote:

Not really retro but got one of these in the mail today... pretty generic business class HP PS/2 keyboard. Perfect for the HP El […]
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Not really retro but got one of these in the mail today... pretty generic business class HP PS/2 keyboard. Perfect for the HP Elite 8300.

Those are one of my favorite keyboards. I'm using a USB model on my Windows 7 computer right now. Also, I've never seen a PS/2 model with the Windows 8/10 logo key. The newest PS/2 one I've seen had the Vista/7 logo key, so that's pretty interesting.

We had hundreds of those at my old job at one point - came with our HP 6300's. They're..... fine. Wouldn't say they're amazing, but they're fine.

Robert B wrote:

Epic day today!!! Flea market big score!!! […]
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Epic day today!!! Flea market big score!!!

1. MSI MS-6168 VER:2 - 440ZX / 3dfx VooDoo 3 2000 8MB ONBOARD / CREATIVE ES1373 - It needs repairs and a northbridge heatsink. Easy fixes if the board is still alive. We'll see. I never thought that I'll find one.
2. Gigabyte GA-622-16 REV 1.0 / TNT 2 M64 with TURBO SETTING 😁 - interesting card. 160/160 instead of the stock 125/150.
3. Asus GF256/DDR AGP-V6800DDR/32MB (TVR) I wanted a GF256/DDR and I got one 😁
4. Advanced Gravis Ultrasound ACE V1.1 - I wanted a Gravis and I got one.
5. Celeron 500MHz S370.(less epic but what the hell 😁) - maybe I'll need it some time down the line...who knows. I have fond memories tied to Mendocino.

10 EUR for everything 😁 😁 😁

Older find: Leadtek WinFast GeForce 2 PRO 64MB AGP 2842 PCB REV. B - Pics taken before it has been repaired and restored.

Fantastic stuff! Those are the kinds of parts that are getting super hard to find, partially because they aren't as easily identified as 3DFX hardware or other highly sought after stuff. That blue TNT2 is awesome... has to be one of Gigabyte's first blue PCB products, along with the Banshee they put out probably a year or so prior to that.

dionb wrote:

Possibly the nicest one in retrospect.

I'd love to find one along with a Goldfinch board. Pure GUS, pure AWE, no bad compatibility hacks. I lusted after these when I was younger.

bought a gmb 486 unp 2.2 vlb board on eBay, for only 40usd shipped however its described as untested and been in storage so fingers crossed

Nice! Does it come with RAM/processor/cards/cache?

there is still 1 left from the 5 or 6 on ebay, but it only comes with cache, and a soldered on barrel battery! hopefully not leaking.

I have lots of ram and processors so thats not a problem for me. A fair deal I guess when working vlb motherboards are going for ~100 usd + postage

Samsung SyncMaster LD190G (Lapfit) and a pair of NOS Yamaha YST-M20DSP speakers

Those Yamaha speakers look neat. Are they shielded?