stamasd wrote:

There's no pleasing you, is there? Even a YMF262 doesn't sound 110% like itself. 😀

Shure there are. I was only thinking about that resampling at higher than 44. 😉
I'll take any CT-1740, CT-2740, CT-2910 and CT-2950 over a SB-Live when gaming Doom in Adlib.

I ordered this lot of cards, some of them begin low end, but there are two interesting cards:
A Geforce 4 Ti 4200 and a Geforce 6600 GT with the 3,3 volt key

There a link of the listing i bought

http://www.ebay.com/itm/322343719130

Carlos S. M. wrote:

I ordered this lot of cards, some of them begin low end, but there are two interesting cards: A Geforce 4 Ti 4200 and a Geforce […]
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I ordered this lot of cards, some of them begin low end, but there are two interesting cards:
A Geforce 4 Ti 4200 and a Geforce 6600 GT with the 3,3 volt key

There a link of the listing i bought

http://www.ebay.com/itm/322343719130

gotta warn you on that ti4200 that the brown kzg series caps like to bulge out. I bought one last year and had to replace it after maybe 5 hours of use. Also Iv seen those dead on lots of motherboards. EDIT: luckily that card only uses one of those KZG's

The Thinkpad 380ED arrived today, after being sent back and forth between 2 states a couple of times. Fortunately it didn't get damaged during the journey. As expected it displays errors 00161 and 00163. Turned it over, opened the cover of the RAM/CMOS battery compartment, replaced the battery with a fresh CR1220, put the cover back on, powered on, set time&date, booted Windows 95 almost pristine. Total time spent fixing it: 3 minutes. The main battery holds charge, it booted not connected to the power supply which is very good for a 20+ year battery. By the timestamps of some files on the HDD it looks like this laptop hasn't been booted since approx. May 2001. 😀 Think the drive should be OK to use for a long time after I wipe it and reinstall. The whole computer is in almost pristine condition.

Can't beat finding a complete retro gaming system in this condition for less than $40 including shipping.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/132015680222

Won this overdrive processor. I didnt want it, but i bid on it, thinking it was for socket 4. I guess im lucky nobody bid against me

luckybob wrote:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/132015680222

Won this overdrive processor. I didnt want it, but i bid on it, thinking it was for socket 4. I guess im lucky nobody bid against me

Is the Pentium Overdrive for 80486 sockets, it can be ethier the 63 or the 83 mhz version

Socket 4 overdrive is the left one, then Socket 3 overdrive and at the right you can find the socket 5/7 overdrives

I've received my Arrows SGI Visual Workstation 550 recently. It's a Visual Workstation 550 with Arrows livery. They've used SGI machines during their final years in F1. The 550 is a standard PC - with an Acer M29A motherboard (Intel 840 chipset) and 2 800 MHz Pentium III Xeons. It was hard do ship it from the UK to Poland but as both an SGI and F1 fan I could not pass on it.

Nice. Now you can start designing your own F1 cars.

stamasd wrote:

Nice. Now you can start designing your own F1 cars.

Unfortunately there was no CAD software on it. Years ago there was an Arrows SGI Visual Workstation 320 for sale with all the CAD software and even models: http://web.archive.org/web/20050424191556/htt … gidepot/vw.html

Nice, I have SGI 550 myself... just a standard blue version though. On the other hand it has 1GHz PIII Xeon... and dead onboard SCSI controller.

havli wrote:

Nice, I have SGI 550 myself... just a standard blue version though. On the other hand it has 1GHz PIII Xeon... and dead onboard SCSI controller.

I have the 230 in standard blue, with a dead PSU, which, even though ATX, can't be easily replaced, because the power cord connector has to be in a specific place or it will be covered by a piece of the chassis.

I plan to upgrade my 550 to 1 GHz Xeons, even looked for the Tualatin Slot 2 adapters, but they seem to be extremely rare. The motherboard's SETUP is also very limited and it seems to be some odd non-AMI/Award/Pheonix BIOS so I can't find any tool to edit it.

Took a risk and picked up a whole bunch of 'as-is' semi-modern motherboards + the RAM, CPU's and coolers that were still attached to them for 20 Euro today.
Out of the 8 I picked up, two AM2 boards and one LGA775 board were working (also got an LGA1155, but I don't have a CPU to test it with 😒 ).

However the one that interests me the most is nowhere close to being modern:

Underneath the cooler that had no thermal paste I found a Pentium MMX 200. Sadly I don't have an AT power supply at this time so It will have to wait until I can get myself a converter.

Looks like that socket7 motherboard will need a COAST.

stamasd wrote:

Looks like that socket7 motherboard will need a COAST.

Yeah, luckily those aren't hard to come by. Still, I want to test if it can ever POST before I get any add-ons for it.

Some of the jumpers mention K5, so maybe I can finally put my PR133 to use 😀

OK, so this week ended with an awesome haul — a Yamaha SW60XG that I got for less than 8 bucks.

This is the first time I get my hands on a somewhat high-end MIDI device (and I've been wanting one for a while), so I'm really excited. The first thing I did was plugging this card into my Pentium Pro machine that currently has a Yamaha YMF-718-S card.

YMF-718-S actually has a softsynth that was my favourite MIDI "device" right until this very moment (as compared to AWE32/64) so it's been pretty fun to compare it with the SW60XG. For the last hour I've been listening to games and switching between OPL3, softsynth and SW60XG. I'm really happy with the difference, to say the least 😀

I think I'm going to figure out some way to record the samples — there doesn't seem to be a lot of those for this card. Probably because it doesn't differ too much from DB50XG, though.

Picked up a set of 4x1GB matched set of DDR2-1200 that runs at 5-5-5-12

Total price with shipping: $26.64 USD

This'll be part of what I need to take my recent AM2 Crosshair board "To the next level", other part is try a 6 core chip in it some day. If I ever get there. Next goal in the next few months will be to get a 4-core Zosma core chip for it.. "Test the waters" with am3 6-core era tech and see if it'll work.. if that works then I can probably get a 6 core for it. Seeing as Zosma quads are just Thuban 6-cores with 2 cores disabled. (No this board doesn't have core-enabling technology, sadly.)

I have redeemed myself on buying random cheap stuff on ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/311751671239

I'm SO HAPPY. I've wanted one of these for years but was always too cheap to pay $150 for one, or too unlucky to find a cheap one.

^ so what is the good item among these adapters? What do I miss? 🤣

keropi wrote:

^ so what is the good item among these adapters? What do I miss? 🤣

U1-SC25 USB SCSI adapter.

I was lucky to find a similar device attached to a $5.00 JAZ external 1GB drive at my local university surplus store.

ah.... I have no idea about such things 🤣
lucky buy then, awesome!