These ICs arrived today. Waiting on the second shipping, from China, which will take a month or so.

Anyone care to guess what I'll be doing? 😀

tayyare wrote:

I was "actively-not-buying" anything for a while, but I can't stop myself when I see a known brand S7 ATX board for cheap: […]
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I was "actively-not-buying" anything for a while, but I can't stop myself when I see a known brand S7 ATX board for cheap:

A Soyo SY-5XAE socket 7 motherboard, Intel Pentium MMX 233 CPU with cooler and 128MB SDRAM for about 25USD.

I have no idea about this board, I only know Soyo is a good brand. Is there any details that I should know about this board? What about compared to an Asus TXP4-X?

Sellers photo:

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Nice board, can go down to 2.1V so it can take K6-2 K6-3 CPUs. Appears to support up to 75MHz officially meaning it can do 400/450MHz (there might be an unofficial 83MHz setting for 500MHz as well). Good pickup 😎

I know the guy you bought it from, by the way.. He's a very cool seller and never sells stuff he doesn't test fully. Buy with confidence.

Just got these new friends to play with:

Greetings

appiah4 wrote:

tayyare wrote:

I was "actively-not-buying" anything for a while, but I can't stop myself when I see a known brand S7 ATX board for cheap: […]
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I was "actively-not-buying" anything for a while, but I can't stop myself when I see a known brand S7 ATX board for cheap:

A Soyo SY-5XAE socket 7 motherboard, Intel Pentium MMX 233 CPU with cooler and 128MB SDRAM for about 25USD.

I have no idea about this board, I only know Soyo is a good brand. Is there any details that I should know about this board? What about compared to an Asus TXP4-X?

Sellers photo:

x16_6076935528kb.jpg

Nice board, can go down to 2.1V so it can take K6-2 K6-3 CPUs. Appears to support up to 75MHz officially meaning it can do 400/450MHz (there might be an unofficial 83MHz setting for 500MHz as well). Good pickup 😎

I know the guy you bought it from, by the way.. He's a very cool seller and never sells stuff he doesn't test fully. Buy with confidence.

Thanks a lot for the info. I'll be probably looking for a K6 II/III soon, then. 🤣

I'm happy to hear that this guy is not a "regular" sahibinden seller. We are extending our communication at the moment, maybe we can exchange some parts (apperantly he is looking for a 5.25 drive, which I have a couple of extra).

I never owned an AMD K6-2 (or any other K6) system before, so I thought it was time to change that:

(sellers photo)

Planning to pair it with an ASUS TXP4 socket 7 motherboard that I already have. However, I don't know if the whole system will stay with me in the long run since it would be a bit too much redundancy in the 1996-1999 era, given the fact that I already have fully working P1, P2 and P3 configurations.

I ordered a Dell GF2 GTS 32mb for $13.50 shipped. It should be here Tuesday.

root42 wrote:

These ICs arrived today. Waiting on the second shipping, from China, which will take a month or so.

Anyone care to guess what I'll be doing? 😀

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286 build?

appiah4 wrote:

Intel486dx33 wrote:

stamasd wrote:

Let me guess. X-Fi Fatal1ty sound?

Yes, I have one of those. I just need a Fatal1ty video card. Nvidia GS8800

This guy might well be the most annoying face in gaming hardware; I really don't see why one would build a tribute PC to him but good luck to you all the same.

He's about 8.0 on the Pai face punchability scale. (Ajit Pai - 10.0, Nigel Farage - 9.5)

gdjacobs wrote:

(Nigel Farage - 9.5)

No doubt about that but his memorable performance in the European Parliament, calling Herman van Rompuy a damp rag was just hilarious... 😁

PcBytes wrote:

root42 wrote:

These ICs arrived today. Waiting on the second shipping, from China, which will take a month or so.

Anyone care to guess what I'll be doing? 😀

9CC1C76A-B584-420A-BFDA-424A6DE9B881.jpeg

286 build?

Na, already have one. But: it's something that was designed by people on 'the other' forum. Also, the IC is an amplifier...

AsusTek Nvidia GeForce GTS 8800

gdjacobs wrote:

appiah4 wrote:

Intel486dx33 wrote:

Yes, I have one of those. I just need a Fatal1ty video card. Nvidia GS8800

This guy might well be the most annoying face in gaming hardware; I really don't see why one would build a tribute PC to him but good luck to you all the same.

He's about 8.0 on the Pai face punchability scale. (Ajit Pai - 10.0, Nigel Farage - 9.5)

Shit, he's 10.0 in my book! This advert specifically: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DT21WPZji_U/hqdefault.jpg

I received my Music Quest MPU-401 clone from keropi today! 😁

There's been some really awesome stuff posted here lately. I guess I'll add a few things to it that I've found in the last couple months...

Asus V6600 Deluxe Geforce 256
Geforce 3 Ti 500
Diamond Stealth 64 Video VRAM (Vision968)
Diamond Stealth 3D 3000 (Virge VX)
Creative CT6750 Voodoo Banshee
Diamond Monster Sound MX300
SoundBlaster AWE64
SIIG Enhanced IDE multi-IO adapter
YUAN JRS-3DS100 (NV1 😀 )

I don't have pictures to post of these, but:
2x Sound Blaster Pro 2 CT1600
Diamond Stealth II S220 (v2100)
Video Seven Vega VGA 8bit ISA (Cirrus Logic GD510\520 Eagle II)
Gravis Ultrasound Classic 2.4 (was in bad shape, but I've fixed it and it works perfectly)
AWE64 Gold
Voodoo 3 3000 AGP
Creative CT6670 (Voodoo 2 12MB)
QDI Legend i740
Ensoniq Voodoo Banshee AGP
BFG Asylum 6800GT OC AGP
Radeon 9800 Pro
Radeon 9600 XT
Biostar Riva128
Leadtek Winfast 3D S320 II (TNT 2 standard)
ASUS P5A
Geforce 2 MX PCI
Orchid Kelvin 64 VLB
SB16 CT2230
Diamond Stealth 3D 3000 (Virge VX)
S3 Virge DX
4x STB Velocity 3d (Virge VX)
ASUS V9900 Geforce FX 5800 AGP

The vast majority of these are 100% working. I haven't listed most of the stuff that is in need of repair.

Thallanor wrote:

I received my Music Quest MPU-401 clone from keropi today! 😁

excellent, enjoy!

I also received a soundcard today:

It's OKish but sadly opl4 is only usable under win3x/9x , under DOS you get SB-PRO/WSS + OPL3 . Maybe a good card for a win3x build ? 🤣 most likely I'll trade it back or store it or forget about it. 😵

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Thallanor wrote:

I received my Music Quest MPU-401 clone from keropi today! 😁

excellent, enjoy!

I also received a soundcard today:

It's OKish but sadly opl4 is only usable under win3x/9x , under DOS you get SB-PRO/WSS + OPL3 . Maybe a good card for a win3x build ? 🤣 most likely I'll trade it back or store it or forget about it. 😵

I have one of these as well. I wonder if there is a way to make it work under DOS.. even if there had to be some custom TSR or something made for it.

I found the documentation for OPL4 on an ftp site so that may give some clues.

Stiletto wrote:

gdjacobs wrote:

He's about 8.0 on the Pai face punchability scale. (Ajit Pai - 10.0, Nigel Farage - 9.5)

Shit, he's 10.0 in my book! This advert specifically: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DT21WPZji_U/hqdefault.jpg

Nah, he just looks like a run of the mill twat.

gdjacobs wrote:

Stiletto wrote:

gdjacobs wrote:

He's about 8.0 on the Pai face punchability scale. (Ajit Pai - 10.0, Nigel Farage - 9.5)

Shit, he's 10.0 in my book! This advert specifically: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DT21WPZji_U/hqdefault.jpg

Nah, he just looks like a run of the mill twat.

With a face like that, he should be on Home and Away or some other douchey soap opera 😀

Edit: BTW, to be back on topic, ordered an ET4000AX video card

Ajit Pai

Google: Did you mean Ashit Pai?

Mac iBook G4 13” PPc
Intel bunny
Mayo Health Clinic 1992 ( Mac edition ).
(5) Pioneer IDE DVD drives.