Both was from trade the keyboard for one Mitsumi normal one, nothing special, the laptop was trade for 2GB DDR 800 ( the memory it did cost me only 2.50 euros)...
Good thing is all on the laptops is working great the keyboard all keys, all the ports are working, the hardware itself HDD, RAM, CPU the display. Only thing making problems was the inverter did a problems, but i did open the plastic panels and fix it up, so now even this is working 100%. The bad side is the cosmetic state of the Armada is not very good scratches, many broken plastic elements, but im overall happy.

For the Cherry im so sad is not a damn mechanical Cherry as i will like to have one of them as well, but is still something, after all is made in Germany not China..
I also lost a deal for IBM Model M (UK one) from the pics did seems to have missing only 1 or 2 caps and was overall look good, but s**t happens.....

Im a big fan of Compaq overall, they was something special, just like IBM, very well build machines.

Added a 3dfx VoodooTV FM to my collection.

Today:

* Jetway 911AF mainboard with Slot 1 and Socket 370, i810 chipset with i740 IGP
* Geforce4 MX 440 64 MB DDR, PCI
* Creative Sound Blaster PCI CT4750
* Some Realtek PCI LAN card

BOOT Magazine (April 1998)

Creative Waveblaster II GamePak with Creative CT1740 & DSP 4.05 ISA

Roland CM-32P (Boxed) (Serial ZA72996)

SOYO KT333 DRAGON Ultra Platinum Edition Socket 462 (Boxed) with AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (AX2000DMT3C) (2000)

Thermaltake Big Typhoon CL-P0114 CPU Cooler (NOS)

Bought a new in box Intel Pentium Overdrive 5V 83MHz ZIF-237 (Socket 3) for $68 shipped on eBay (I made an offer, but the seller made another one, and I accepted it).

Artex wrote:

SOYO KT333 DRAGON Ultra Platinum Edition Socket 462 (Boxed) with AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (AX2000DMT3C) (2000)

I love the color of this thing. Would look amazing in a silver case from the time.

Usually not posting about accessories/small items but as a buckling-spring fan myself this one deserves it. Got one of these brand new ones as long as supplies still last. Professionally bolt-modded so I expect it to literally outlast me then 🤣

Munx wrote:

Artex wrote:

SOYO KT333 DRAGON Ultra Platinum Edition Socket 462 (Boxed) with AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (AX2000DMT3C) (2000)

I love the color of this thing. Would look amazing in a silver case from the time.

Have to agree it here. That's an awesome color combination on that board and green AMD fan rounds it up all very nicely.

Sooo.... my great finds as of late is apparently continuing.

I see this for sale with a low starting price and super low shipping:

And then comes the horror... is that rust from the battery or from the case getting wet? I kinda think the motherboard is toast, but what is that sound card? I don't recognize that output arangement... hmmm Getting interesting.. maybe I can salvage that case. :

And then I see it has this CPU - getting more interesting:

And then I see the sound card 😲 :

An Ensoniq card.... is that what I think it is? A few minutes later after doing an image search.... 😲 😲 😲 It is, an Ensoniq Soundscape S-2000 😎

Then the wait and hoping that nobody else will bid on it.... and I got it. 😎

Artex wrote:

BOOT Magazine (April 1998)

Creative Waveblaster II GamePak with Creative CT1740 & DSP 4.05 ISA

SOYO KT333 DRAGON Ultra Platinum Edition Socket 462 (Boxed) with AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (AX2000DMT3C) (2000)

Nice sounds card, even in box is so rare to see in such condition. The old Creative SB from that years are using high quality components, while the newer ones like SB Live, Audigy, X-fi are using crap ones..
Nice to see SOYO Dragon Platinum series, is not the one im looking for, but is still nice. This one is better SY-KT600 DRAGON Ultra Platinum, wondering why Soyo don`t have a single nForce based board, seems they did hate nvidia...

cyclone3d wrote:

And then comes the horror... is that rust from the battery or from the case getting wet? I kinda think the motherboard is toast, but what is that sound card? I don't recognize that output arangement... hmmm Getting interesting.. maybe I can salvage that case. :

rust.jpg

This is definitely from some water, not the battery. I can remember seeing some guys using their old computers to put flowers with pot cakes on them, and the water was spilling on the computer and did some damage, but not like yours, yours seems really bad, slappydamn people that don`t deserve the old nice hardware they have...

CPU is Celeron Tualatin with adapter for 440BX chipset (and on left are adapters themselves) 😀

Card without heatsink :

Sadly, I don't have board with native support yet (I managed to do Single GPU tests on my Rampage II Extreme with PCI-e 8x mode, no POST - however after driver installation, in Single GPU mode, card works fine in desktop).

Radical Vision wrote:

cyclone3d wrote:

And then comes the horror... is that rust from the battery or from the case getting wet? I kinda think the motherboard is toast, but what is that sound card? I don't recognize that output arangement... hmmm Getting interesting.. maybe I can salvage that case. :

rust.jpg

This is definitely from some water, not the battery. I can remember seeing some guys using their old computers to put flowers with pot cakes on them, and the water was spilling on the computer and did some damage, but not like yours, yours seems really bad, slappydamn people that don`t deserve the old nice hardware they have...

The listing said that it had been stored in an attic for years.... but who knows what happened to it before that or if maybe there was a leak in the roof or something. Could also be that there was just a scratch in the metal and humidity damaged it over time.

agent_x007 wrote:

CPU is Celeron Tualatin with adapter for 440BX chipset (and on left are adapters themselves) :) […]
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CPU is Celeron Tualatin with adapter for 440BX chipset (and on left are adapters themselves) 😀

Card without heatsink :
Sadly, I don't have board with native support yet (I managed to do Single GPU tests on my Rampage II Extreme with PCI-e 8x mode, no POST - however after driver installation, in Single GPU mode, card works fine in desktop).

DFI NF4's had an option in BIOS explicitly for the dual-GPU 6600. Maybe others like MSI K8N had it too.

Had some really nice goodies that i had to share:

After a couple of years i finally found a working Pentium PRo board, this one is a biostar and came complete and boxed. NOS, picture made after testing.

Some time ago i posted here about finding the great Gainward bliss 7800GS+ 512mb agp special edition. This one has the 24p core instead of the normal 16p so basicly it is a 7900GT in disguise.
These seem to be a bit rare and only 1500 of these were sold. Well, i have 2 now because i found a boxed version and had to have that too 😎

Also came across a nice card for the Asus boards that have the specific mediabus slot. It's missing the bracket but works fine:

Found these very nice NOS upgradeware Tualatin adapters, 2 for my Asus dual cpu board and one spare:

Also got these very fast agp cards from Ati, complete in box and fully functional

Last but not least:

Everything tested and working fine! Except for the Pentium Pro 1mb cpu as the biostar board only supports 256kb and 512kb cpu's. Will have to find a board for this awesome cpu..

meljor wrote:

Everything tested and working fine! Except for the Pentium Pro 1mb cpu as the biostar board only supports 256kb and 512kb cpu's. Will have to find a board for this awesome cpu..

This is actually common. Look for a bios update. That should help. I have an Asus dual board ( P65up5/cp6nd) And there are 2 revisions of the motherboard. The older one will not run 1mb chips no matter what.

So it is a possibility, the 1mb chip will never work. That said, even if the 1mb chip will never work, the 333mhz overdrive will. 😀

In other news, this came up in one of my searches. https://www.ebay.com/itm/10PCS-IS61C1024-10N- … 872.m2749.l2649

The price is just too good to be true. Hopefully they aren't too fake. 1mb of L2 cache for my 486 for $11 shipped? I just had to try!

luckybob wrote:

In other news, this came up in one of my searches. https://www.ebay.com/itm/10PCS-IS61C1024-10N- … 872.m2749.l2649

The price is just too good to be true. Hopefully they aren't too fake. 1mb of L2 cache for my 486 for $11 shipped? I just had to try!

Why too good to be true? I mean.. how much of a demand is there for that sort of thing now days? If they have a huge amount of stock and are just trying to get rid of it I can see it easily being that cheap.

I've added that sale to my watch list for future reference for once I get a 486 setup up and running.

Bought a Intel AN430TX Socket 7 ATX board with a pentium mmx 233, 64 mb ram and a S3 Virge DX 4mb PCI card for $74.99, still shipping though.

cyclone3d wrote:

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Sooo.... my great finds as of late is apparently continuing.

I see this for sale with a low starting price and super low shipping:

case.jpg

And then comes the horror... is that rust from the battery or from the case getting wet? I kinda think the motherboard is toast, but what is that sound card? I don't recognize that output arangement... hmmm Getting interesting.. maybe I can salvage that case. :

rust.jpg

And then I see it has this CPU - getting more interesting:

DX4ODP75.jpg

And then I see the sound card 😲 :

Soundscape-S-2000.jpg

An Ensoniq card.... is that what I think it is? A few minutes later after doing an image search.... 😲 😲 😲 It is, an Ensoniq Soundscape S-2000 😎

Then the wait and hoping that nobody else will bid on it.... and I got it. 😎

Appears to be a combo 386/486 motherboard.
Let us know if you are able to identify the motherboard and what the specs are (chipset, etc.)