Looks like "full height" 3.5". I'm always curious about those drives, because you see the drives a lot more than you do cases with external bays to accommodate them.

Aztech Sound Galaxy NX Pro

Atrend ATC-2000 socket 7 mainboard

Anonymous Coward wrote:

Looks like "full height" 3.5". I'm always curious about those drives, because you see the drives a lot more than you do cases with external bays to accommodate them.

Looks like a Chinon drive like the ones used is the Amiga 2000 / 500 .

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Aztech Sound Galaxy NX Pro

Atrend ATC-2000 socket 7 mainboard

Nice. I have a Sound Galaxy NX Pro card myself.

Voodoo 3 3000 AGP

Already have the PCI version but couldn't resist to buy this one for 37 € incl. shipping, which I believe is a good deal here in Europe.

Today:

S3 Savage Pro PC 8MB PCI
PALIT Daytona 64V 3DX 4MB S3 VirGE/DX PCI
ATI 3D Rage Pro 8MB PCI
Flagpoint FVGAP-S34.2E PCI S3-Virge/DX
DFI AD73 PRO Socket A KT266A + Athlon XP 2400 + 512MB RAM
ATI PCI Mach64 4MB PCI
Winsonic Surf Warrior PCI S3-Virge/DX

All for 35€.

Got a Riva 128ZX on the mailbox on Friday for €5. Also ordered two Microsoft Serial Mouse for €5 + S&H each... 😀

Found some neat stuff this weekend. The top is a Mac IIx. No HDD, looks like someone removed a leaky battery inside and tried to clean up the motherboard. 8MB ram. Unknown if it works (I don't have a monitor or adapter to plug into this). The middle is just an empty case, but has an AT PSU, and floppy drives, so it's good for parts.

The bottom is an 8088 system, with a Sound Blaster CT1320 Rev.C 😀, some generic ATI modem, and a really early ATI 1MB VGA card. What's weird is it has no floppy cables inside, no I/O card, no IDE/floppy card, and a 12x Mitsumi CD-ROM in it?

The good news is it posts, the bad news is I don't have an XT compatible keyboard (my Laser keyboard has an opening labeled XT/AT, but no switch is present). Not sure I'm going to do anything with this yet, but it was too good a deal to pass up.

Nice 1024 XL.

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appiah4 wrote:

Cyrix200+ wrote:

Never saw one in the wild, but I've seen mainboards with them soldered on, like the U5SX motherboard I have and use as a 486 system. The U5SX CPUs are also supposedly around as installable discrete CPUs, but I have yet to see one myself.

I actually have one. Haven't tested it (got it with a big lot of CPUs). I may benchmark it to see how it compares to an SX-33 (I just assumed it was a clone).

Also, noticed this on the bottom.

Either it was a sample, or maybe just for sale in Canada only?

I recently got an U5SX @ 40Mhz and I installed on a Chicony CH-498B mainboard (Socket 2 and no VRM) replacing a 486DX/2-S. Performance is very good and certainly in the range of the DX/2 it has replaced (since it does not have a FPU floating point math is not even near but running integer code is not much slower). Here is a comparison between several 486SX CPUs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQEdPQDXdLY

The UMC is allways the faster one. It would be interested to make a comparison with a SX2 @ 66Mhz.

Two new Yamaha YMF744-based sound cards.

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Batyra wrote:

Bought locally for about 20Euro 😀
Boxed Elsa 3D Revelator... will try to connect it to my Elsa GF 256

3dRevelator.jpg

Will work. Had it home borrowed from friend before he sold them. Tested on GF FX 5600XT and World of Warcraft together with World of Tanks looked really nice. For example Counterstike wasnt so good....

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Two new Yamaha YMF744-based sound cards.

Nice boxes. Wish they did artwork for computer parts today, but sadly, they stopped doing that due to "budget cuts." Looks like those cards will slither their way to victory over the integrated sound cards on today's computers.

I'm planning on getting a new sound card for my gaming PC, but sadly, the GPU fan is over the PCI-E x1 slot, and they don't make PCI 32-bit sound cards anymore. The HDMI port on my GPU has better audio than the RealTek HD Audio.

Got an Asus SK8N with FX-53 (Socket 940) setup. I think this will be my new defactor 1.5V AGP test rig. Had some PSU issues (doesn't want to turn on with my Corsair CX750M). I cleaned it up (some thermal paste on underside of CPU) and re-applied Arctic MX-4 on the heatsink. It actually came quite clean.

I think the fastest CPU is maybe Opteron 256 or something?

Also got a retail boxed Radeon X1900 XTX. Apparently Crossfire worked quite different back then (no connectors).

^^ Nice card, but who the hell thought naming something "X1900XTX" was a good idea? Not to mention ATI's infantile strategy of shoving 3D rendered booth babes onto all their products. I wish somebody had "cross-fired" their marketing team (sorry 😜 ) back then.

ElectroMan wrote:

derSammler wrote:

Two new Yamaha YMF744-based sound cards.

MMMM... SHHHHnake... delightful.

How come that we don't have any mascots associated with hardware anymore? It makes the crap soulless.

You mean, those half naked manga inspired porn chicks with swords that was not humanly possible to lift in real life? I am happy that that they finally got rid of that crap. Belongs in the 00's and should stay in the 00's. Its the same story regarding 80's clothing. Happy it is a thing of the past. I do not recall that many original boxes from the 80's with porn artwork, that was designed to lure 16 year old pizzafaces, with too many hormones, into buying a specific brand of hardware. (If you want porn, then why not go for the real thing instead? Lots of webpages and sites out there)

Sorry for my ranting. I have just never understood the idea of that kind of hardware in the first place. Its the performance, compatibility and image quality that matters in my book. Not some kind of crappy surface artwork. How much do one look at the gfx card anyway, when gaming or writing a document.

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dexvx wrote:

Got an Asus SK8N with FX-53 (Socket 940) setup.

Single socket s940 board... very nice, these things are not easy to find. I'm not sure it supports 90nm CPUs though.

I got this early VGA card made by ATi, the ATi VIP (VGA Improved Performance). +-1987. I think it also has an EGA connection. Look forward to test it! Need to find info on the dipswitches/jumpers. More info here: https://sites.google.com/site/atiwonderseriesdatabase/ (scroll down)

This other card was a few bucks extra from the same seller, looks like an ols SCSI card by Iomega: