I'd say that it wouldn't hurt to replace the fan, since it originally had one. Interesting to see that there are still some PC Chips boards floating around - and still alive.

More graphics cards!

Matrox G550, G400 MAX, That gimped Voodoo 3, AGP 6600GT and a S3 Savage 2000.

Nice catch Mau1wurf1977! That Savage 2000 from Inno seems hard to find. If I am not mistaken then It has 64 MB RAM?

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Nice catch Mau1wurf1977! That Savage 2000 from Inno seems hard to find. If I am not mistaken then It has 64 MB RAM?

I have no idea 😊

It was mentioned in the eBay thread and was cheap enough BIN so I grabbed it 😀

Yesterday we spent the day selling some of our old junk like clothes and shoes etc at a huge car-boot (trunk?) sale up the road, which we've been doing for about 5 years now.
Before it opens to the public, I usually have a good scout around to if there's any computer stuff going for sale, which there hardly ever is, which is weird.
Yesterday I struck gold and bagged almost everything this one bloke had on his stall, including a couple of mobos and a 3DFX card.
My wife's face was a picture when she saw me stroll back to our stall with my winnings.
I'll post the pictures when I get to my shop later

Weekend Car boot sale finds.
XFX Geforce 6800 GT AGP £2

Trident 1meg PCI 50p.

Research Machines GT 8000 Pentium III 650 laptop, BX chipset,S3 Savage IX video, 128mb RAM, 10 gig HD, CD & floppy, works perfect, with original charger, even the battery still holds a charge, win 98SE COA £5.

Compusys Pentium 4 1.7Ghz(willamette), 768mb RAM, Rage 128 Ultra 32Mb, 30Gb HD, CD Writer all working with Win 2K COA. £2.

Not a bad little haul I reckon 😀

Nice finds BSA Starfire!

Shame about the boot sales around me, all I've seen is used keyboards and TFTs 🙁 Where abouts in the UK are you? I'm in Essex.

I'm down in Devon, had a good bit of luck with older PC stuff from the boot sales this year 😀

Wow!
And just look at those prices, incredible.
It makes me wonder what people do with their old stuff if they don't flog it in boot sales.
I expect they bin it, which is a shame.

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Wow!
And just look at those prices, incredible.
It makes me wonder what people do with their old stuff if they don't flog it in boot sales.
I expect they bin it, which is a shame.

Yep, too many fully-functioning electronic items end up in the bin. Fortunately, some do get donated to charity shops or given away free. That, or broken up into their parts and sold in pieces (which is always a shame, I feel) That laptop looks in fantastic condition, and still even has two of the original stickers! And a decent spec Willamette system for £2? That's just awesome.

Some recent purchases:

IBM LAN Adapter/A for Ethernet MCA

Roland MPU-IMC

Matrox MGA PCI manual (for the early Ultima cards)

ASUS P/I-P55T2P4 rev 3.1

ASUS P/I-XP55T2P4 Rev 1.3 - ATX version of the board above. ASUS first ATX board (and first HX board that I know of)

Wow! nice Asus boards! Can`t seem to find these anywere in my country (never use ebay).

Great stuff, love the atx version.

Hello, my name is Solarstorm and i have a problem!

I just couldn't resist!

How many programs/games could use Roland MPU-401 (MIDI) on MCA systems?

Opened the box from the boot sale and this Zida 60-CREATE LX-CT was inside, with a pentium in the slot.
I haven't tested it yet, so I've no idea about it and never heard of Zida before:

Here's what I bagged.
Unfortunately the graphics cards either don't work or are garbled. The one with the silver coloured heatsink is a 3dfx.
PSU is an AT 300w and hard to find down here, brand new (if it works).
A Soyo mobo which I haven't tested yet, fitted with a PIII, yummy.
SB Live and various other bits and pieces, but I was beaten to a couple of Trident PCI card which I really needed.

Normally I don't find anything retro at the local Goodwill (most of the time it's a P4 boneyard), but today was different. Scored these two boards for $5 each.

Unknown late-model 486 board with PS/2 mouse and keyboard jacks. Does anyone know what the third power connector is for? I don't recall ever seeing one of these...

ATX Intel TX Pentium board with a P100 already installed, not to mention a wicked looking heatsink on the VRM.

Sorry for the blurry pics. Now of course, I'm not sure if these work or not.... First I need to find out about the third power connector on the 486 board, then obtain a heatsink for the Pentium....

vetz, these are really solid motherboards! I've got the exact same AT version. The fact that it has not got the COAST slot means that it already has full 512Kb L2 cache. The empty DIP sockets are for TAG RAM to remove 64MB caheable RAM limit.

btw, the XP55T2P4 was bundled with ASUS I-A16C sound card (Vibra16C). I have the card but not the board.

@gramcon, I think that the third power connector on the 486 board is for PCI cards that need 3.3V.

Unknown late-model 486 board with PS/2 mouse and keyboard jacks. Does anyone know what the third power connector is for? I don't recall ever seeing one of these...
That third connector is called an Axillary power connector. Used on late P3 and early Pentium 4 systesm along with Early Athlon systems as well I think. At least that is what im pretty sure it is 🤣. Strange to see it on a 486 board! EDIT: This is supposed to be a quoted picture and top sentence. I messed it up