wrote:You can never escape from those P4 Dell Dimensions.
Wait until 20 years from now people will pay $5000 for these "collectibles"
I/O, I/O,
It's off to disk I go,
With a bit and a byte
And a read and a write,
I/O, I/O
Been grabbing some stuff for the past week or so.... Waited to post so you people wouldn't go do eBay searches and bid on some of this stuff. 🤣
Got these couple of motherboards specifically for the Epox EP-MVP3G5 (2MB L2 cache). The other board is a MSI K7T Turbo V. 3 that needs caps replaced. I put in an offer and it was accepted. Got it for a really good price.
Another lot of motherboards. This lot had been listed for a while and I jumped on it when the seller lowered the price. Nine boards total.. but I wanted the lot for the one on the left in this potato pic. Anybody recognize what it is?
This lot of fans/heatsinks. I wasn't the only bidder.. but I still got a great deal considering how much 486 and socket 7/370 heatsinks go for lately.
A lot of 45 video cards. Sold as scrap. A few cards had a few smd components knocked off in shipping, but most survived just fine. Still have to test.
The best so far in this lot are:
V1 4MB
PCI ATI x1550
TSENG ET6000
A Green Math 4C87DX-40. Hoping this works in my Wang Alliance 386sx-25 system. Yeah, I know it will only run at 25Mhz, but whatever.
A Voodoo 2-12MB for way cheaper than they normally go for. Now I need to finally finish fixing my other v2-12MB. Will a 90Mhz and a 100Mhz V2 work in SLI?
Music Quest intelligent midi card.. with v.008 firmware. The only versions I have seen mentioned before are v.004 and v.010. I already have a v.010.
Music Quest MQX-32m intelligent midi card - will have to make a cable for this.
And now for something I came across and since there is so little information about it I am guessing it is really rare.
An Altec Lansing AMC2000 multimedia CD-ROM system. This sucker retailed for $700 back in the day.
From looking at the driver packages, this sucker is also a sound card with some sort of midi synth built in. The sound card portion is listed s a "DSP Solutions sound card" according to the driver package.
It also has external midi support as well as a gameport.
And it has speakers built in to boot. Basically an all-in-one sound solution for old laptops.
This model uses SCSI for the CD-ROM. The lower model which was released later used some form of IDE.
Unsure if it supports real DOS mode.. but the Windows 3.1 driver readme does mention that it modifies the config.sys and autoexec.bat files so it just might.
I'll try to post about it in the PCMCIA sound card thread once I have been able to test it. I am still waiting for it to arrive.
wrote:wrote:Picked this lot up today mostly for the 286-12 in the bottom right corner. The Gateway on the very left, though, is loaded up with full and half height SCSI drives and a three internal connector SCSI controller. All the Gateways are P-II models I believe at a quick glance. Some are basic P4 systems. Other than the 286-12 the rest I have no use for so I might part these out. Plan on cleaning up the 286-12 which is in excellent shape.
You can never escape from those P4 Dell Dimensions.
🤣 So true. You can't even give them away for the price of shipping. Those will probably get scrapped. I have no room for them.
wrote:wrote:You can never escape from those P4 Dell Dimensions.
🤣 So true. You can't even give them away for the price of shipping. Those will probably get scrapped. I have no room for them.
I actually find those older Dells interesting. Are any of them Pentium IIIs or are they all Pentium 4s? I know that the midnight-grey case design started being a thing in the late P3-era so I thought it'd be worth a shot to ask. If you end up not having a use for their motherboards and power supplies, feel free to let me know because I could use some spare Dell parts just in case.
@dickkickem Those are Optiplexes, not Dimensions.
Oh yeah.. almost forgot this one. Already have one of these.. but this came up at a really good price and looks to be in really good shape.
wrote:... but I wanted the lot for the one on the left in this potato pic. Anybody recognize what it is?
That sticker on the northbridge... hmmmm... FIC VA-503+?
Looks like you have some caps to replace, though.
wrote:wrote:wrote:You can never escape from those P4 Dell Dimensions.
🤣 So true. You can't even give them away for the price of shipping. Those will probably get scrapped. I have no room for them.
I actually find those older Dells interesting. Are any of them Pentium IIIs or are they all Pentium 4s? I know that the midnight-grey case design started being a thing in the late P3-era so I thought it'd be worth a shot to ask. If you end up not having a use for their motherboards and power supplies, feel free to let me know because I could use some spare Dell parts just in case.
@dickkickem Those are Optiplexes, not Dimensions.
I have no use for them so I will PM you pics and specs this week.
wrote:wrote:... but I wanted the lot for the one on the left in this potato pic. Anybody recognize what it is?
That sticker on the northbridge... hmmmm... FIC VA-503+?
Looks like you have some caps to replace, though.
Yep VA-503+ Cap replacement is easy-peasy. For $20 + shipping for the lot I couldn't resist.
Picked up an Athlon 64 FX-57 for some maximum single core goodness. $32 shipped (no original box, sadly). 😄
Also got a Compaq 213859-001 1MB video RAM upgrade module for my Compaq 9232 for $5.25 shipped, brand new in OEM sealed packaging. Kind of pointless since I'm running a Matrox Millennium II in it, but I am just working on decking out my first PC I ever owned with some of the parts it never came with.
wrote:And now for something I came across and since there is so little information about it I am guessing it is really rare. An Altec […]
And now for something I came across and since there is so little information about it I am guessing it is really rare.
An Altec Lansing AMC2000 multimedia CD-ROM system. This sucker retailed for $700 back in the day.
From looking at the driver packages, this sucker is also a sound card with some sort of midi synth built in. The sound card portion is listed s a "DSP Solutions sound card" according to the driver package.
It also has external midi support as well as a gameport.
And it has speakers built in to boot. Basically an all-in-one sound solution for old laptops.
This model uses SCSI for the CD-ROM. The lower model which was released later used some form of IDE.
Unsure if it supports real DOS mode.. but the Windows 3.1 driver readme does mention that it modifies the config.ses and autoexec.bat files so it just might.
I'll try to post about it in the PCMCIA sound card thread once I have been able to test it. I am still waiting for it to arrive.
I love crazy things like this. Looking forward to reading more about this when you get it. 😀
Now for some blitting from the back buffer.
wrote:Todays flea market finds.
I hope the Maxtor drive works, because it's not one of the best manufacturers out there... 🤣
every hdd manufacturer had a bad period 😀 eg the ibm did the best drives at the end of the 90s, and they created the "deathstar" 75gxp. or the fireballs were the fastest drives in the middle of the 90s, finally they created very low end products with this name.
wrote:I actually find those older Dells interesting. Are any of them Pentium IIIs or are they all Pentium 4s? I know that the midnight-grey case design started being a thing in the late P3-era so I thought it'd be worth a shot to ask. If you end up not having a use for their motherboards and power supplies, feel free to let me know because I could use some spare Dell parts just in case.
@dickkickem Those are Optiplexes, not Dimensions.
Only P3 Dells known to use the clamsheel case are the Optiplex GX150 and the GX50, the GX150 uses the i815E chipset with AGP port while the GX50 uses i810E without AGP, some later GX150s can take Tualatins as well
I arranged for the pickup of a Matrox Mystique G200 8MB PCI for a few bucks. I doubt I will ever use it, but these late PCI/early 3D accelerator cards really fascinate me (Rage Pro, TNT, G200, Savage4 - heck, even the GF2MX, Radeon 7500, G450). I have quite a few Socket 7 and i810 systems and some mITX boards that could use decent PCI VGA cards, so maybe one day I will put them to use after all..
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wrote:wrote:I actually find those older Dells interesting. Are any of them Pentium IIIs or are they all Pentium 4s? I know that the midnight-grey case design started being a thing in the late P3-era so I thought it'd be worth a shot to ask. If you end up not having a use for their motherboards and power supplies, feel free to let me know because I could use some spare Dell parts just in case.
@dickkickem Those are Optiplexes, not Dimensions.
Only P3 Dells known to use the clamsheel case are the Optiplex GX150 and the GX50, the GX150 uses the i815E chipset with AGP port while the GX50 uses i810E without AGP, some later GX150s can take Tualatins as well
You are correct. Opened all three today and all are P-III/133/1GHz machines. Two with 512MB and one with 256MB. Al the hard drives were in a state of failure (probably from being moved around in the past). All the internals look to be in perfect shape and very clean surprisingly. The IDE performance on these Optiplex machines are notoriously sluggish, but a SCSI or fast IDE controller is easy to add.
Got a complete in case Magnavox EasyCam CVS315AV VHS shouldercam at the flea market for $10. It....somewhat works. Without a tape, the viewfinder lights up and it ejects, but it does nothing else in either camera or VCR mode. However, on external video, I can see a flash when setting it to camera mode. With a tape inserted, it can play it, but it plays at a much higher speed than normal and is distorted all to hell. I'm trying to find help troubleshooting it.
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Boxed Sound Galaxy NX Pro 16 with Turtle Beach RIO daughterboard with an unknown sized SIPP. No documentation or any accessories besides the disks according to the listing.
wrote:wrote:I actually find those older Dells interesting. Are any of them Pentium IIIs or are they all Pentium 4s? I know that the midnight-grey case design started being a thing in the late P3-era so I thought it'd be worth a shot to ask. If you end up not having a use for their motherboards and power supplies, feel free to let me know because I could use some spare Dell parts just in case.
@dickkickem Those are Optiplexes, not Dimensions.
Only P3 Dells known to use the clamsheel case are the Optiplex GX150 and the GX50, the GX150 uses the i815E chipset with AGP port while the GX50 uses i810E without AGP, some later GX150s can take Tualatins as well
There's the Dell Dimension 4200 which uses the same clamshell case as the Dimension 4300-4550 and uses Pentium IIIs like the models you've mentioned.
