EvieSigma wrote on 2021-03-05, 03:59:

The Aptiva certainly is, the RS/6000 is currently more frustrating than beautiful and I haven't even tried to fire it up yet!

But that RS/6000 case IS a beauty. Those lines draw an almost perfect line from the 80s 5170 with floor standing option into the 90s . Clearly with the statement “serious business”. I love it...

Today I received a lot consisting of:
- An MSI MS-6905 Master Ver 2.0 Slotket (these are pretty hard to find for a reasonable price nowadays)
- Various Socket A CPUs, mostly Athlon XPs, one of them being a 3000+ (Barton core), 400 MHz FSB, should be the second fastest XP after the 3200+/400MHz Barton
- One S370 Celeron 900/100 on the slotket
- One K6-2 400
- A whole bunch of cables (IDE, Floppy, Molex Y-Adapters), which is good because I was running out of 40 pin IDE cables
- Four optical drives in great visual condition
- Two floppy drives
- One external floppy drive
- A bunch of PCI network cards (one 3com, the others mostly Realtek or similar)
- One TNT M64 PCI without heatsink
- One S3 Virge or similar
- A bunch of adapters (IDE-SATA, USB-PS/2, PS/2-Serial, etc.)
- Some IO shields etc.

Got everything for 15€ + shipping, which is nice.

I was surprised today with a Radeon HD 2900 PRO

Two lots arrived today.
One with three power supplies, two ATs and one ATX, the ATs lack ignition switches, I bought a new couple.
: The other batch consists of an ASUS P5N-E SLI MB with Intel CoreDuo2 E6750 CPU and four 1GB DDR2 RAMs, plus a bezel for the cabinet doors (unfortunately not of this MB).
The RAMs are in pairs of different brands, one pair is ADATA the other has ELPIDA chips.

Bought the following:

1) Hard Drive/Floppy Drive Shock Mounts (2x)
2) Hard Drive/Floppy Drive Ground Strap
3) 5.25" bay cover (says for hard drives)
4) AST SixPakPlus SPK-064 with 384KB RAM installed

New case time! I saw this new in box Inwin case and I couldn't pass it up. Its a S Series S508. Unfortunately it arrived damaged. It must have taken a knock in shipping as the plastic tabs the hold the front facia to the case had snapped off. Fortunately the seller was reasonable and we came to a partial refund arrangement. I was able to glue the clips back on with some bonding glue and its fine now. My ISA based P4 build is going in this. It came with a Inwin 350Watt psu. Will give it the once over but it seems a decent unit, 120mm fan, -5V rail.

Bancho wrote on 2021-03-05, 22:19:

New case time! I saw this new in box Inwin case and I couldn't pass it up. Its a S Series S508.

How did you use the 3 1/2 inch slots with the curved covers? I don't know of any floppy drives that would fit in that opening!

Thermalwrong wrote on 2021-03-05, 00:46:

That's great that you managed to get them back without breaking a single pin off 😀

You got me worried that I had lost my K6-III+ processor, it wasn't on the board it came with where I thought it was. I found it on another MVP3 board I had. It turns out I have so many Super 7 boards now that I'm losing track of the CPUs, awful, I should sell some. So of course I bought another one 😁

Thanks. The hardest part was the one pin that was bent into an S shape. Good problem to have so many Super 7 boards. 😀

Jed118 wrote on 2021-03-05, 00:59:

You should have seen the 486 I picked up for $5 - all pins lying down. 30 minutes with an exacto knife, needle nose pliers, and […]
Show full quote

You should have seen the 486 I picked up for $5 - all pins lying down. 30 minutes with an exacto knife, needle nose pliers, and a paint scraper got them all righted. I lost one, but it was a redundant ground, chip worked fine.

Then I did an LGA P4 - yeah, NOT fun.

I just bought two Cyrix DX2/66s - I'm going to be doing a large comparison of 10+ 486 chips on YouTube, and then upgrading two DX33 computers (one that I bought here just yesterday)

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/254779071667

Nice! I have started on another, but I need to find my magnifying glass first. Credit card, finger nails and needle nose did the trick for me. I won't touch pins on any CPU after socket 7. I will look forward to your YouTube video. I have a 486DX4-100 that needs a proper home.

PC@LIVE wrote on 2021-03-05, 19:38:

Two lots arrived today. One with three power supplies, two ATs and one ATX, the ATs lack ignition switches, I bought a new coupl […]
Show full quote

Two lots arrived today.
One with three power supplies, two ATs and one ATX, the ATs lack ignition switches, I bought a new couple.
: The other batch consists of an ASUS P5N-E SLI MB with Intel CoreDuo2 E6750 CPU and four 1GB DDR2 RAMs, plus a bezel for the cabinet doors (unfortunately not of this MB).
The RAMs are in pairs of different brands, one pair is ADATA the other has ELPIDA chips.

I can't find a bloody ATX power supply locally at all. The last one I picked up for $20 did some weird things (you had to push power 3-4 times before it would actually kick on) and hten I put it into another system where the power supply spat out some smoke and unpleasant smells.

I think I'm just gonna go buy some new ones, they're only $8 more.

I was rather pleasantly surprised to see this in my recently acquired black Aptiva, I've been wanting to try out one of these Aureal Vortex cards and now I don't have to buy one.

EvieSigma wrote on 2021-03-06, 01:12:

I was rather pleasantly surprised to see this in my recently acquired black Aptiva, I've been wanting to try out one of these Au […]
Show full quote

I was rather pleasantly surprised to see this in my recently acquired black Aptiva, I've been wanting to try out one of these Aureal Vortex cards and now I don't have to buy one.

Vortex 2s are great sound cards. Its a shame that Aureal didn't last longer.

I needed an AT form factor Socket 7 (not Super 7) board, other than my dreadful PC Chips M558. Found a QDI Explorer II SpeedEasy (430VX based) for only $25, surprisingly low for a board with an Intel chipset these days.

"Untested" of course, aka code for "it's broken but I don't want to admit it"-- and sure enough when I looked at it in person I found some severe trace damage that was only visible in the original photos if you knew to look for it.

I was a bit worried, not only cause a lot of the copper is straight up gone, but because the traces seem to be burned. Power supply malfunction? Overclocking mishap? I dunno. I figured I might as well at least try to bridge the gaps with some wire, though I assumed the board was totally fried.

But ultimately, there was a happy ending to this story. 😀

MrKsoft wrote on 2021-03-06, 03:37:

I was a bit worried, not only cause a lot of the copper is straight up gone, but because the traces seem to be burned.

That's legitimately impressive damage. And it's just as impressive that it still works.

BetaC wrote on 2021-03-06, 04:39:

MrKsoft wrote on 2021-03-06, 03:37:

I was a bit worried, not only cause a lot of the copper is straight up gone, but because the traces seem to be burned.

That's legitimately impressive damage. And it's just as impressive that it still works.

I am definitely curious as to what the hell could have caused it! It's really intense damage but only in those two very localized areas. The rest of the board was in good shape and very clean.

PC@LIVE wrote on 2021-03-05, 19:38:

: The other batch consists of an ASUS P5N-E SLI MB with Intel CoreDuo2 E6750 CPU and four 1GB DDR2 RAMs, plus a bezel for the cabinet doors (unfortunately not of this MB).

I'm legitimately stumped about what this sentence means. "Bezel for the cabinet doors (unfortunately not of this MB)"

Can you post a picture of the part you're talking about?

Brand new 20 wonderful diskettes. Removed the wrapper myself.

Yum. I bought a box of 50 3.5" disks last year. All dead... 🙁

MrKsoft wrote on 2021-03-06, 05:41:

BetaC wrote on 2021-03-06, 04:39:

MrKsoft wrote on 2021-03-06, 03:37:

I was a bit worried, not only cause a lot of the copper is straight up gone, but because the traces seem to be burned.

That's legitimately impressive damage. And it's just as impressive that it still works.

I am definitely curious as to what the hell could have caused it! It's really intense damage but only in those two very localized areas. The rest of the board was in good shape and very clean.

I've seen this kind of damage before. It looks like one of the previous owners plugged in the AT PSU connectors backwards.

I bit the bullet and bought a Cyrix MediaGX motherboard from ebay. It was 140$ including shipping from the US and inport tax, witch is pretty steap from my point of view. Pretty pissed I had to pay double what the seller was asking (~68$) beacuse of exuberant shipping fees and import tax. Not sure WHY I had to pay import tax on a 23 year old motherboard witch most would consider e-waste, but I wanted it bad since I've had mediaGX CPUs in my collection for years but nothing to test them on, and I've wanted to test out what is practically the fastest 486 platform ever made from the moment I heard bout it's existence.

The board is an ECS P5GX-M:

New old stock apparently. Came in a sealead antistatic bag with manual and driver CD, but no box or I/O plate.