So you need a Riva128ZX, a Geforce DDR, and a Geforce3 Ti500. Luckily I have all of these and I have already sent you a PM =)

PS: The reason why my SS7 rig uses a Geforce4 is that it is the first generation that supports dual head (both output from VGA and DVI).

Two Sound Blaster Live! drives.

Bought 3 things today:

ATi Radeon R96A (9600 Pro, I assume) that was in an HD 2200 Turbo PCIe box (the original owner must've upgraded to a PCIe system in place of the AGP)
NIB Belkin 4x4 USB sharing for 4 PCs and up to 4 hardware (will use this between my iMacs (G3 and G4), and possibly my laptop and desktop for the keyboard and mouse)
Microsoft IntelliMouse 1.0 that supports PS/2 and Serial ports in a box

found these 2 things at the thrift store, a Gateway FPD1810 '18 lcd monitor and a lite on sk-2000r AT keyboard

I bought this box full of junk for less than 5 euro in one of the local thrift shops.

Here is the junk. Nothing fancy but a Geforce 3 is better than nothing I guess.

I've seen worse ways of spending EUR 5 😉

Love the Abit heat sink.

Skyscraper wrote:

Here is the junk. Nothing fancy but a Geforce 3 is better than nothing I guess.

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No, the GF3 is really a good catch if it's working. It'd be nice if I had shops that sells stuff like that around.

As for me, I was planning on getting a Radeon X800 XT PE, but the one I found had some overheating issues with the stock cooler and started to develop graphical artifacts in the middle of a 3D Mark 2001SE benchmark so I contacted the seller who sent me a Sapphire X800 XT and told keep whichever works out and send back the other. This new one seems to be flawless. It's not Platinum Edition, but I think it's still a decent catch.

Now I just have to wait until the replacement for my recently deceased Pentium 4 motherboard arrives. It has some serious bottleneck in my Tualatin test setup.

Skyscraper wrote:

Here is the junk. Nothing fancy but a Geforce 3 is better than nothing I guess.

It appears to be a Ti 500 which makes it a great buy.

Only things I've gotten this month was an ATI 9800 Pro with the Zalman passive cooler in a lot for $10 and an Asus L1N64-WS/B mobo to mess around with early dual socketed quad core Opterons.

funky PC on my table ... s478 Cel D 😁

and some normal HW, long time I was searching something with EISA

few more cards to office

these VGA Silencer fans were super cool but they occupied the slot directly beneath the AGP slot

So? You can't do SLI with AGP (yeah, I know, V2 SLI, but that's not a serious use case for the makers of cooling solutions to consider), and by the time these things came along, everything up to GbE LAN was onboard already. You might have a high-end sound card, but that would use just a single PCI slot. You could easily have one of these in an uATX board with a nice sound card and still have slots free.

I have one of them still NIB, I've considered putting it on my 9800PRO now and then but never got around to it.. My X1950PRO AGP has one (by Thermaltake) but it came preinstalled on the card when I bought it second hand, I just cleaned and reinstalled it. Pretty nifty things but they aren't really 'silent' by today's standards..

this takes lot of slots all ways 😀

BadMojo, I have this board too.. I've dessoldered the ram ic's to install real cache chips... but in the process i've destroyed one or two tracks and now i'm not shure where they conect.. CAN YOU PLEASE POSTA A GOOD FOTO OF THE BACK OF THE BOARD BEHINF THE CACHE CHIPS ? PLEASE...

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I picked this up for a Christmas holidays project - if you believe the sticker on the outside then it's a Pentium MMX machine, but it's actually a 486 DX4 100 OD.

The motherboard is an example of classic 90s sleaze - the PCChips M915i. It's an interesting motherboard really, PCI and VLB, but of course it has fake cache. This can be corrected from what I read but that's a project for another day. I actually picked this up for the case, which is one I owned back in the day. From memory I ran a Cyrix based machine in it and clearly remember drilling holes in the bottom front of the case - why? Airflow I guess, or speed holes?

Anyway I'm going to try and recreate that machine, minus the drilling. It was filthy but is coming up well so far - I'm particularly pleased with the plastic which hasn't yellowed much at all. The PSU was revolting and has already been binned. Good times.

Anyway it's an interesting little PC - I get the feeling that the configuration is original, based on the vendor name stickers I found here, all the screw types matched, etc. It makes that Pentium sticker all the more mysterious - I wouldn't be surprised if it was put there for trickery purposes by the vendor. If 'hi-micro' could sleep at night after selling peeps a machine with fake cache, then why not trick 'em into thinking they're getting a Pentium too?

It's not Platinum Edition

There's no such thing as Platinum Edition really, it's just factory overclocked normal X800XT. They share absolutely same voltages, VRM and memory (Samsung 1.6ns). Now Radeon X850XT PE PCI-E is a different case and actually differs from its non-PE counterpart.

Nothing special today...
For conversion of an Amiga500 Revision 8a.1 board to an Amiga500-Plus, I bought the following:

- 20 pieces of 16pin DIP sockets
- 20 pieces of 20pin DIP sockets
- 4 pieces of MC74F139N IC's
- 10 pieces of TMS44C256-10N IC's

This is more than I will need, (enough for 2 full conversions) though better to have some spare parts, if I mess stuff up.
I only gave a little under 24 Euro for it all. If I wanted to buy a complete 500-Plus board, it would set me back 149 Euro.

The Serpent Rider wrote:

It's not Platinum Edition

There's no such thing as Platinum Edition really, it's just factory overclocked normal X800XT. They share absolutely same voltages, VRM and memory (Samsung 1.6ns). Now Radeon X850XT PE PCI-E is a different case and actually differs from its non-PE counterpart.

I believe you, the board design is the same, I compared them while both were in my hands, but regardless, the manufacturer calls it Platinum Edition so even if only in name, it is a PE.

Ever since trading my Mystique 220 away I was in the market for one, and I (think I) had a decent offer for a Mystique (Not 220) + Rainbow Runner Studio; how much is this worth, really?

AsRock ConRoe865PE, possibly the fastest agp8x/win9x-compatible motherboard there is. Seller says he's installed modded bios for 45nm wolfdale support. We'll see tonight 😉 Also it's recapped with japanese caps

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AsRock ConRoe865PE, possibly the fastest agp8x/win9x-compatible motherboard there is. Seller says he's installed modded bios for 45nm wolfdale support. We'll see tonight 😉 Also it's recapped with japanese caps

Nice. How does that compare to the 4CoreDual-VSTA?