vetz wrote:

Also got this Zenith Service manual for my Zenith Z-386/20 machine I got for free earlier. It's a great addition to the system! It has insane amount of details and it also include manuals for other contemporary Zenith computers if anyone is interested. I now know every jumper on the whole motherboard and their functions. It also explains the BIOS in very high detail and the function behind the LED diagnostic lights. It also contains the business card of the repair person who used to own it as well as confidential papers on replacement parts and Zenith's testing results.

Excellent!

It's a good thing to pickup documentation that match the systems we own... unfortunately some are fishing for crazy sums!

This happens to be the same Zenith System I recently acquired, only I paid a small fee. To justify though, the EU does not seems to have as good a market / freebies as the US etc... nor are there many folk with a spare Zenith lying around 🤣 ... very much a rarity this part of the world... makes me feel slightly naughty stealing the case for the Systempro build, but not much else fits! 😒

I would be keen to see your Zenith system though... it is only the base unit?

Here are the cards that I got this month. Most of them came from my friend who lives in the USA.
Some of them were bought from other collectors and won in local auctions.

PLEASE GIVE ME THE NAMES OF ALL THOSE CARDS :D We will see if you guess them all 😉

Which one do you think is the most interesting?

I know what etch one of those cards are but the big one in the top line.
What is it? I seen it before.

saturn wrote:

I know what etch one of those cards are but the big one in the top line.
What is it? I seen it before.

You mean this one?

Nice stuff! Love those dual plane Voodoo Rush cards.

Artex wrote:

Nice stuff! Love those dual plane Voodoo Rush cards.

Thanks Artex! I love them too 😉

I have one from Britek as well:

VooDooMan wrote:

You mean this one? https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/12366436_571517423004981_3835206169659975179_n.jp […]
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saturn wrote:

I know what etch one of those cards are but the big one in the top line.
What is it? I seen it before.

You mean this one?

Yes. nec PCI-300SX-N?

As its name says, that's a board based on 3Dlabs Glint 300SX rasterizer 😀

VooDooMan wrote:

PLEASE GIVE ME THE NAMES OF ALL THOSE CARDS :D We will see if you guess them all 😉

Fred, Bert, Janet, Lucy, ........

Got some stuff myself today:

VooDooMan,
Why do you collect so many old voodoo cards?
I understand for building a retro rig to play games, but why so much?

James-F wrote:

VooDooMan,
Why do you collect so many old voodoo cards?
I understand for building a retro rig to play games, but why so much?

Because he want to and he can? 🤣

PCBONEZ wrote:

VooDooMan wrote:

PLEASE GIVE ME THE NAMES OF ALL THOSE CARDS :D We will see if you guess them all 😉

Fred, Bert, Janet, Lucy, ........

Haha that made me laugh 😁

James-F wrote:

VooDooMan,
Why do you collect so many old voodoo cards?
I understand for building a retro rig to play games, but why so much?

It is like an ADDICTION...

but the thing is that I initially wanted to collect ALL the graphics cards with 3D acceleration from last century and the beginning of this one 😉 MAKE PHOTOS of them all COLLECTED in one place, TEST them all, COMPARE with each other, DOCUMENT the parameters, HAVE FUN playing with them, EXCHANGE with others, BUILD different systems with them and then finally... DIE 😁

kanecvr wrote:

I don't have four 512mb sdram sticks - only two. Spec-wise it should support 2GB of ram but I don't see why I'd do that. 1GB is more then enough.

Try with cheap reg sdram. My MSI 694D worked. Only one thing is to disable ecc with some types of chips.

Today's final trade is complete - I got a hold of a set of terrific motherboards:

- intel 815T based Abit ST6 with the lovely Abit SoftMenu III and Tualatin support

- intel 440bx based Abit BE6-II again with Abit SoftMenu + 333MHz Deschutes Pentium II 333MHz witch runs comfortably at 500MHz on said board.

Other stuff I got - pictured above:

- Atrend AT-25 Voodoo Rush single board - this baby went into my 586 build
- Diamond Monster fusion AGP Voodoo Banshee
- Creative Graphics Blaster CT6610 3DLabs Paramedia 2
- ISA Cirrus Logic CL-GD5423 1MB with some wierd-ass memory on it - this is faster then my WD Paradise board and ET4000AX boards.

Stuff not picured:
- MSI Riva TNT PRO
- Palit Geforce 3 Ti200 with gold PCB
- Lucky tech AT form factor i440BX slot 1 board

- ISA Cirrus Logic CL-GD5423 1MB with some wierd-ass memory on it - this is faster then my WD Paradise board and ET4000AX boards.

You mean 5424 - pictured above. I've seen this memory modules on some Trident ISA cards.

In what benchmarks is it faster?

VooDooMan wrote:

[...]
but the thing is that I initially wanted to collect ALL the graphics cards with 3D acceleration from last century and the beginning of this one 😉 MAKE PHOTOS of them all COLLECTED in one place, TEST them all, COMPARE with each other, DOCUMENT the parameters, HAVE FUN playing with them, EXCHANGE with others, BUILD different systems with them and then finally... DIE 😁

sounds like a good plan to me 🤣 😎

Got these CPUs in trade today:

I threw them on my FIC PA-2010+, gave them a voodoo 2 and made them fight. Man is the K6 slow in gl_quake 😜

Also got this neat server / workstation case to put my dual-370 MSI board in:

It has a door under the 3.5" bays that covers 3 more 5.25" bays. One could stick a Supermicro 5-Bay SCSI rack in there 😀. Those bay covers need bleaching tough...

Now to snag a Voodoo 5 and I'm done for this year.

Ordered this last night for a build I am working on didn't realize how scarce they are SL7GD LGA775 3.4ghz P4 130nm Gallatin core, there was 2 available when I purchased it just checked the auction now the other is gone only paid $15. This is the sellers picture hope they don't mind

stuvize wrote:

Ordered this last night for a build I am working on didn't realize how scarce they are SL7GD LGA775 3.4ghz P4 130nm Gallatin core, there was 2 available when I purchased it just checked the auction now the other is gone only paid $15. This is the sellers picture hope they don't mind

That is a great bargain for a P4 EE, they still seem to fetch massive sums even now, at least here in the UK. I guess that original £999 price tag will take a good while to wear off plus there are an awful lot of P4 systems still in daily use, all our work machines at the garage are still netburst based, they just go on and on 😀