derSammler wrote:

Matrox Mystrique 2 MB + 2 MB expansion, unfortunately no box, but software is new.

Nice, I own exactly that card as well (2 MB + 2 MB expansion) and the software, but also no box. Your copy of Mechwarrior 2 however seems incomplete, as it should come in a Jewel Case with inlays, not loose.

Ahh I see what you mean, I just assumed that it was meant to come like that. But on closer inspection, i can see that the seal is only on the two other games.

NEC MultiSync LCD1960NXi circa 2004
Seems to have been a decent monitor back in its day. I find the layered, strong angles sexy, and the thrift-shop price was right for 12 USD. Unfortunately, at 5:4 and 1280x1024, it's not super useful for retro gaming.

you are incorrect sir.

thats one of my best LCD panels. Its very compatible, and works great, no matter what I plug into it.

Some of those old LCDs have excellent scalers in them. Guessing that this is one of them.

blurks wrote:

Creative Labs Graphics Blaster 3D (Cirrus Logic CL-GD5464 Laguna3D, 4MB RDRAM, PCI)

Step aside shrink wrap, show me your guts (driver CD archived at vogonsdrivers)

I bought another scrap box 😀

Somehow I had come to the conclusion that the board on the right was some weird Micro ATX socket 7 board - nope, that's a Compaq Presario 4540 board, apparently the Mitac Titan R. Nothing ATX about it, oh well, it'll be novel to see if that one still works.
Strangely there are socket 775, 478 and 1155 boards in here, a real mix. One thing that was a nice surprise was the VA-503A hiding at the bottom of the box, I need to see if it works 😀 That puts me up to 3 super socket 7 boards now, a bit more than I need...

Flea market day today! 😁

1. Zalman ZM80C-HP nVIDIA and ATI editions - BULK - one used two NOS - 4 EUROS
2. Razer BlackWidow Chorma V1 - mechanical keyboard - 4 EUROS 😁 😁 😁 - UNTESTED!

Not too bad. 😁

The Zalman ZM80C-HP will be used on anything but video cards. 😁

https://pc.zoznam.sk/cpu-intel-pentium-2-400- … man-om-zm80c-hp

Nice finds. That's a use I never would've thought of for the ZM80 heatsink 😁

piatd wrote:

NEC MultiSync LCD1960NXi circa 2004
Seems to have been a decent monitor back in its day. I find the layered, strong angles sexy, and the thrift-shop price was right for 12 USD. Unfortunately, at 5:4 and 1280x1024, it's not super useful for retro gaming.

I'd say that those monitors are okay for playing PC games. Although I don't think I've had too much experience with 1280x1024 and 5:4, but rather 1024x768 and 4:3 for older monitors.

Skanque wrote:

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Not bought today, but received since last I did a update.

Been buying mostly big box games, but also some hardware:

From left to right: Voodoomania 2 12MB, STB V2 1000 12MB, OEM V3 2000 16MB PCI, STB V3 2000 16MB AGP, Diamond V2 8MB, Diamond V1 4MB, Creative CT6670 V2 12MB SLI pair.

SLI in action

ASUS V6800 Geforce 256 DDR 32MB (Seller photo)

ASUS V7700 TIVX Geforce 2 TI 64MB lower core clock speed, replacement for my first with artifacts (seller photo)

Matrox Mystrique 2 MB + 2 MB expansion, unfortunately no box, but software is new.

Assorted ASUS manuals and driver CD's included (not in the photo)

Creative Geforce 3 Titanium 500 64 MB

MSI TNT2 PRO 32MB

Terratec EWS88MT complete in box (I have no idea about professional sound cards)

Hercules 3D prophet Kyro 2 4500 32 MB AGP

Hercules 3D prophet Kyro 2 4000 XT 64 MB PCI (Seller photo) (excluding the card, but in the process of sourcing one)

Hercules Prophetview 720 1024x768 4:3 15" LCD monitor. Finally I have something period correct to use, instead of modern LED 16:9 monitors.

Hercules 3D Prophet 9600 SE 128MB AGP

Hercules 3D Prophet 8500DV 64MB AGP

Soundblaster 16 Basic complete package (excluding the sound card itself ): need to source one)

Soltek Geforce 4 MX 440 64 MB AGP to go along with my silver PCB soltek socket 478 mainboard´

ASUS V3000 RIVA128ZX 4MB AGP

Applause.

You have an eye for collecting 😲

Amazing collection!

This is from a few days ago, but here's a combo IDE/Floppy/Parallel/Serial/VGA ISA card:

The video part works, but I have no idea how to configure the jumpers on the card beyond looking through the CHIPS F82C712 datasheet, assuming it exists.

piatd wrote:

NEC MultiSync LCD1960NXi circa 2004
Unfortunately, at 5:4 and 1280x1024, it's not super useful for retro gaming.

Depends on what you consider retro gaming. That resolution is excellent for W98 and more recent games. For the price you can't complain 😉

Daniël Oosterhuis wrote:

Saw this at the thrift, at €45 I couldn't resist a boxed C64.

It's almost ages ago that I found a C64 in a thrift store.

I wouldn't have paid € 45 for this particular C64, because it's discolorated (some folks think that a C64 bread bin should be brown, but the original color is more grey than brown), but the fact that it powers up is certainly a plus. What are those joysticks? Wico Commander?

Thermalwrong wrote:

This is from a few days ago, but here's a combo IDE/Floppy/Parallel/Serial/VGA ISA card:

ViglenVIO-PAR-WD90C11LR.jpg

The video part works, but I have no idea how to configure the jumpers on the card beyond looking through the CHIPS F82C712 datasheet, assuming it exists.

Looks pretty straightforward, mainly enable/disable for various features. Follow where the traces go from the jumper and you know which functionality it affects. Probably everything is on/default now, so should 'just work' for the rest.

To be fair, I haven't tested the monitor yet, and retro gaming was an overly-broad descriptor. This discussion deserves its own thread, so I'll refrain from responding.

Tired of Socket A HSFs with poor noise/performance ratios? I am, so I picked up these to test:

Thermalright SI-97A
Should be an improvement over Thermalright's SLK series.

Scythe Kamakiri
Tower cooling for Socket A! I probably know how this ends, but I'm going to try it anyways.

A) B) C) D) E)

A) Advertised as new in box. Technically true, although the sun yellowed the transparent box plastic (plus the plastic shroud on the actual cooler), and a semi-sealed side flap allowed a spider to set up shop inside.
B) Even the box advertising shows easily-misaligned fins, typical of press-fitting instead of soldering.
C) Side profile. Only accepts an 80mm fan in the middle.
D) Base looks new. Note the staggered heatpipes, allowing for six total.
E) I'm still researching this, but this first "twin tower" cooler I've found, about half a decade before Noctua popularized the style with their NH-D14.

GeForce GT610 PCI.
Not that old by any means, albeit this will come in handy throughout all them XP eras.

Skanque wrote:

Not bought today, but received since last I did a update. […]
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Not bought today, but received since last I did a update.

Been buying mostly big box games, but also some hardware:

From left to right: Voodoomania 2 12MB, STB V2 1000 12MB, OEM V3 2000 16MB PCI, STB V3 2000 16MB AGP, Diamond V2 8MB, Diamond V1 4MB, Creative CT6670 V2 12MB SLI pair.

SLI in action

ASUS V6800 Geforce 256 DDR 32MB (Seller photo)

ASUS V7700 TIVX Geforce 2 TI 64MB lower core clock speed, replacement for my first with artifacts (seller photo)

Matrox Mystrique 2 MB + 2 MB expansion, unfortunately no box, but software is new.

Assorted ASUS manuals and driver CD's included (not in the photo)

Creative Geforce 3 Titanium 500 64 MB

MSI TNT2 PRO 32MB

Terratec EWS88MT complete in box (I have no idea about professional sound cards)

Hercules 3D prophet Kyro 2 4500 32 MB AGP

Hercules 3D prophet Kyro 2 4000 XT 64 MB PCI (Seller photo) (excluding the card, but in the process of sourcing one)

Hercules Prophetview 720 1024x768 4:3 15" LCD monitor. Finally I have something period correct to use, instead of modern LED 16:9 monitors.

Hercules 3D Prophet 9600 SE 128MB AGP

Hercules 3D Prophet 8500DV 64MB AGP

Soundblaster 16 Basic complete package (excluding the sound card itself ): need to source one)

Soltek Geforce 4 MX 440 64 MB AGP to go along with my silver PCB soltek socket 478 mainboard´

ASUS V3000 RIVA128ZX 4MB AGP

The hunt continues.. have a nice day

Holy shit. You have access to a time machine or something?

Bought the last piece missing for my SuperSocket 7 build: a CD-ROM analog audio cable.

ShovelKnight wrote:

Bought the last piece missing for my SuperSocket 7 build: a CD-ROM analog audio cable.

Oh shit these things are so annoying. Back when I started this hobby I was putting together my first PCs and the things I found I needed and couldn't find were bewildering. Analogue CD cables, screws, working IDE cables, expansion slot covers, drive bay covers, coin batteries.. You figured out you needed these at the most inconvenient times and they proved stupidly difficult (or time consuming) to obtain. I feel for you.

appiah4 wrote:

ShovelKnight wrote:

Bought the last piece missing for my SuperSocket 7 build: a CD-ROM analog audio cable.

Oh shit these things are so annoying. Back when I started this hobby I was putting together my first PCs and the things I found I needed and couldn't find were bewildering. Analogue CD cables, screws, working IDE cables, expansion slot covers, drive bay covers, coin batteries.. You figured out you needed these at the most inconvenient times and they proved stupidly difficult (or time consuming) to obtain. I feel for you.

Agree.
I know for a fact that I have at least four of these analogue cables lying around here somewhere.
Number of cables found when needed after looking for them for half an hour: 0.