My first upload here. Enjoy photos...
Verticom HX 16/AT Display Adapter
Western Digital Imaging

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Cyrix200+ wrote:

dionb wrote:

Damn, just missed (by <5min) a box of "old crap" with piles of 90s stuff. Condition looked iffy here and there but there were al least 10 regular 486 CPUs, an Overdrive and a PODP-83 and some Pentium Pro, along with So5/7 stuff, DIMMs, VRMs and who knows what else under that. My first offer (while still very low for what was visible) was even EUR 5 more than the other bloke he'd just said yes to 😢

Still, my Adaptec AHA-2940U2W arrived today, so can drown my sorrows in testing the Seagate Cheetah 10k drive I got for free two weeks back.

Well, I don't know if it will make you a bit happier, but the box of "old crap" will go to a fellow Vogon-er.

Somehow that doesn't surprise me 😉

Be sure to post what was actually in there when you get it!

Picked it up this morning. Got some nice stuff.

2x Pentium Pro 200MHz 256KB (SL22V and SL22T)

4x (slim) Pentium Pro heatsink/fan + some other heatsinks that will probably fit a PPro
Some more heatsinks, 486/S5/7 sized

Compaq? PPro VRM

3x Intel 486SX 25MHz
5x Intel 486SX 33MHz
5x Intel 486DX 33MHz
1x Intel 486DX/2 66MHz
1x Mystery 486 (aluminium heatsink)
1x ??? 486DX/2 66MHz
1x ??? 486DX/2 50MHz
1x Intel Overdrive DX20DPR66
1x Intel Overdrive PODP5V 109X4405H6J05 (63MHz part probably)
1x AMD Am486SX/2 66MHz

1x Intel Pentium 75MHz
1x Intel Pentium 90MHz
1x Intel Pentium 100MHz
2x Intel Pentium 166MHz

Some RAM and cache modules
2 BIOS chips
A bunch of SCSI terminators, various interfaces
CD audio cables
1x SCSI Quantum Fireball 1GB

I am very content.

dionb wrote:

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Bad news - still almost no internal components, and the complete systems they have were OEM So478/939 with no interesting upgrades (and no HDDs, which is my main problem atm)<snip>

We should meet. I have too many HDD's.

EDIT: no bent pins, all in great shape

Cyrix200+ wrote:

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dionb wrote:

Be sure to post what was actually in there when you get it!

Picked it up this morning. Got some nice stuff.

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*pretty long list*

I am very content.

EDIT: no bent pins, all in great shape

I can well imagine. Was almost hoping for more goodies that weren't visible in the picture but it looks like WYSIWYG - and that's certainly not bad 😀

We should meet. I have too many HDD's.

Sounds great. Will PM once my current chaos (just had fourth major leakage in our house in less than 12 months...) gets manageable.

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These (among others) arrived a few days ago:

Some are still on the way 😉

That heatsink is adorable! 🤣

You'd think that aluminum was extremely expensive back in the early 90s. "NO, DON'T COVER THE WHOLE TOP! WE'LL GO BANKRUPT IF WE USE THAT MUCH ALUMINUM!!!"

kixs wrote:

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These (among others) arrived a few days ago:

Some are still on the way 😉

Nice! I also love the tiny heatsink. I wonder if they stuck it where the most heat is generated...

My guess is there was some card in the way.

Not half as impressive as most of the stuff in the last few pages but alas, picked this up over lunch today:

Considering upgrading my Sempron 3000+ / Radeon 9800 Socket 754 system to Athlon 64 3600+ / Radeon HD4650.

What is the CPU obscured by the tiny heatsink, looks to be a 386 sized chip.

It should be Ti486SXL-40. Not tested yet.

Catched a mouse today. 😉

That's pretty...luxurious...packaging for a mouse. 😲

SPEA V7-Mercury P64 (VLB, 2048 kB, S3 964 Vision chipset)

yawetaG wrote:

That's pretty...luxurious...packaging for a mouse. 😲

It was a luxurious product once after all 😀

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Needed some toner for my printer so I put that in my cart but had to have $35 more in my cart before I could use the discount.

Looked for random stuff and then decided to search for ASUS P5A and this popped up for $45 shipped. PERFECT!

P5A-B.jpg

Maybe the 3rd time is the charm. Have a P5A 1.03 that arrived DOA and a P5A 1.06 that POSTed once and then never again. I may try recapping them at some point to see if that changes anything but I kinda doubt it.

Been wanting to get another working ASUS P5A or P5A-B for years. Back in the hayday of SS7 I had a K6-2 550 running at 660 (120x5.5) on an ASUS P5A.

Hoping to get that high with my K6-III+ 450. The ultimate goal would be even higher with the 6x multiplier.

Hi 😀 Please let me know when you get the motherboard and join my thread 😀 😎
AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.

blurks wrote:

SPEA V7-Mercury P64 (VLB, 2048 kB, S3 964 Vision chipset)

Uhh... That is a really nice one. 😜

blurks wrote:

SPEA V7-Mercury P64 (VLB, 2048 kB, S3 964 Vision chipset)

Beautiful card.

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Hi 😀 Please let me know when you get the motherboard and join my thread 😀 😎
AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.

That is precisely my plan. 😎

I still have a peltier unit laying around from the days of SS7. Paired with a nice heatpipe cooler, I should be able to push my K6-III+ quite high if that will even help over just a good heatpipe cooler.

When I was overclocking K6-2's back in the day I just had a regular aluminum heatsink. Those suckers ran HOT HOT HOT when pushing them.

The peltier was used during a short stint of testing alongside a homemade evaporative water cooling setup.

With the peltier in the mix, it would ice up the CPU and the area surrounding the CPU socket.

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My first upload here. Enjoy photos...
Verticom HX 16/AT Display Adapter
Western Digital Imaging

Tres coolio. I've not seen many 8514 ... or compatibles. What instructions does it support? Are all drivers supplied with it?

This lot of 30+ old cards. All look to be ISA except for one VLB card from what I can tell.

I was not the only bidder. I'm guessing the lot would have went for more if the seller had actually detailed exactly what was there.

The poor quality pictures also probably didn't help.

Anybody want to hazard a guess at what exactly some of the cards are?

Edit:
I think the one that is a Creative card near the one end is a SB16 CT2290 from pics I can find.

Edit2:
I think the 8-bit card with the partial sticker on the back is possibly a Sound Blaster 2.0 based on the ISA connector pins, the length of the card, the location of the through hole solder points on the back of the card and the hole in the one corner.

If I wasn't trying to dig myself out of a heap of old computer hardware I would have bid on that too... I saw that listing and started coming up with all sorts of crazy ideas as to what could be in there. Hopefully it isn't just a box of old interface cards, modems and network cards. 🤣

Let us know what you find!