easy_john wrote:

Only one rare card - Synergy ViperMAX (GUS Extreme) http://kawai.spb.ru/photo/d/126426-2/IMG_8992.JPG. […]
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Only one rare card - Synergy ViperMAX (GUS Extreme)
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That user guide looks exactly like an aurora from one of my migraines. 😐

Holy shit.... Were on earth do you find all these kind of cards?

90% buy locally for a price of scrap.
Pci cache ide controller - hunting for a months on ebay.
Gus - from another soundcards collector.

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rein_ein wrote:

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Got this fat boy today its a Inno3D GeForce 6800 CoolViva Premium Edition
Not bought but traded for 256mb versions of fx5500 and radeon 9600pro
For tests i removed heatsink,coz noone of my mobos can handle such fatty,works well,but cant pair intel d850mv with this heatsink 😢

Hey, I own that cooler! Mine is blue and branded by cooler master though. I bought it from either zipzoomfly or geeks.com a loooooong time ago. It's universal and a real nightmare to install, had it on a 6600gt for a while.

I have the exact same experience 😁
But I think they are very cool anyway 😜

VooDooMan wrote:

I still need a 32MB version

Since you have several of the 64 meg ones, perhaps you could just unsolder half the memory chips from one of them? 😁

Sorry 😊

easy_john wrote:

Long time don't have a free time to make a photos. Some boards received for last month:

This is an awesome haul! 😁

I think I have the same (or very similar) S3 Vision card, dunno what that nice colory chip-thing is, but it makes the card look special in some way.

Private_Ops wrote:

That user guide looks exactly like an aurora from one of my migraines. 😐

Mandelbrot dreams would be awesome. Mandelbrot migraines - not so much.

Tetrium wrote:

I think I have the same (or very similar) S3 Vision card, dunno what that nice colory chip-thing is, but it makes the card look special in some way.

Blue chip? It's an external DAC, absolutely same, as TVP3026 soldered on Matrox on right, but developed by IBM.

Skyscraper wrote:

Some time ago I won a boxed Digital Venturis 466 system but I have not had the time to open the box until now. […]
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Some time ago I won a boxed Digital Venturis 466 system but I have not had the time to open the box until now.

The DEC Venturis 466 is supposedly a 486 DX2-66, AMD or Intel, WB or WT with 128KB L2 cache on the motherboard or (most often) not.

Depending on the case size and riser version the system either supports 3 ISA slots on the riser and a low profile ISA slot directly on the motherboard or 6 ISA slots (5 on a riser and one directly on the board).

The onboard video chip should be a S3 Trio32 with 1MB memory soldered on the motherboard, sometimes with two sockets for upgrading to 2MB.

There are two versions of the motherboard but Im not sure if revison 2 ever was used in the Venturis 466, the only notable difference is that the 2.0 supports 256KB cache and has a 3.3V VRM.

In any case I opened up the box with the system today, when I opened up the case I diddnt find a DX2-66, I found a POD 83! 😀

Inside the Digital Venturis 466, A POD 83MHz and a Sound Blaster 16 SCSI CT1770 sitting on a "version 1.0" motherboard.

Inside_DEC_Venturis_466.JPG

Under the SB16 we find a S3 Trio64 chip with 1MB memory and upgrade sockets and also sockets that can hold 128KB cache.

Inside_DEC_Venturis_466_2.JPG

The system was sold as a "1991 386 system", almost correct labelling for a boxed Digital Venturis Socket-3 system with a POD 83 inside 😀

The price was ~33 euro on the Swedish Ebay clone Tradera.

Hey not bad at all, I would love to have a DEC x86 computer, you definitely need to get those DIPs to expand the video and the cache, there should be a manual for that PC, Digital used to document its products very well.
I have some vintage brochures I can check if yours was in there.

vmunix wrote:

Skyscraper wrote:

Some time ago I won a boxed Digital Venturis 466 system but I have not had the time to open the box until now. […]
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Some time ago I won a boxed Digital Venturis 466 system but I have not had the time to open the box until now.

The DEC Venturis 466 is supposedly a 486 DX2-66, AMD or Intel, WB or WT with 128KB L2 cache on the motherboard or (most often) not.

Depending on the case size and riser version the system either supports 3 ISA slots on the riser and a low profile ISA slot directly on the motherboard or 6 ISA slots (5 on a riser and one directly on the board).

The onboard video chip should be a S3 Trio32 with 1MB memory soldered on the motherboard, sometimes with two sockets for upgrading to 2MB.

There are two versions of the motherboard but Im not sure if revison 2 ever was used in the Venturis 466, the only notable difference is that the 2.0 supports 256KB cache and has a 3.3V VRM.

In any case I opened up the box with the system today, when I opened up the case I diddnt find a DX2-66, I found a POD 83! 😀

Inside the Digital Venturis 466, A POD 83MHz and a Sound Blaster 16 SCSI CT1770 sitting on a "version 1.0" motherboard.

Inside_DEC_Venturis_466.JPG

Under the SB16 we find a S3 Trio64 chip with 1MB memory and upgrade sockets and also sockets that can hold 128KB cache.

Inside_DEC_Venturis_466_2.JPG

The system was sold as a "1991 386 system", almost correct labelling for a boxed Digital Venturis Socket-3 system with a POD 83 inside 😀

The price was ~33 euro on the Swedish Ebay clone Tradera.

Hey not bad at all, I would love to have a DEC x86 computer, you definitely need to get those DIPs to expand the video and the cache, there should be a manual for that PC, Digital used to document its products very well.
I have some vintage brochures I can check if yours was in there.

I have the service manual 😀

I have already upgraded the video memory to 2MB but Im not sure its worth filling the cache sockets.

This version of the motherboard can only hold 128KB cache so in best case that could cache 32MB but with the fact that the board has 4MB onboard memory in mind the limit for fully cached memory is 28MB (16MB +8MB +4MB) as the motherboard only has two ram slots. The choice seems to be between 28MB fully cached memory which is "just enough" for Windows 95 or 36MB almost fully cached memory or as I run now with 68MB memory and 0KB L2.

easy_john wrote:

90% buy locally for a price of scrap. Pci cache ide controller - hunting for a months on ebay. Gus - from another soundcards co […]
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Holy shit.... Were on earth do you find all these kind of cards?

90% buy locally for a price of scrap.
Pci cache ide controller - hunting for a months on ebay.
Gus - from another soundcards collector.

That can never be done here in Denmark. Nothing left, unless i go through every 70 to 90 year old persons household.
Wich is like 100% impossible. GUS cards are great, love them, just that SB16 cards are way more in use in my collection.
Why I sold off my GUS and bought some 486 stuff for the money instead. To this date, it has been more in use than the GUS.

Got these in the mail, over the last few weeks.
32mb, 512mb and 4gb

I got the one on the right as well. Works well 😀

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

I got the one on the right as well. Works well 😀

You can never have enough of those for retro boxes.

Mostly for CF Adaptor testing, and playing around with.
I want to see how this all works.
For a more permanent build, I usually go for a real HDD.

Artex wrote:

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

I got the one on the right as well. Works well 😀

You can never have enough of those for retro boxes.

I haven't caught up with these yet... but is in the pipe line, esp since 2 of my HDD's have went on the blink last year.

Are they easy to configure? What do you put in the Bios in term of Type, Heads, and Cylinders? or would a cache controller do this automatically?

Stojke wrote:

He who searches shall find 😀

True story.

You might want to consider going with SD cards instead. Check my YouTube channel, I just did a review. In 95% of cases the machine just auto detects the settings. Even a 386 did this, but it has a 500 MB limit of course, so using EZ-Drive gets around that.

But Pentium or higher, shouldn't be a problem.

Bought this from Overclockers Australia forum. It's a very nice socket 939 board with Nvidia nForce4 Ultra chipset. Two Ram clips are missing and the chipset fan was busted. It also was very temperamental to get going, but after a shower and some love from the Australian warmth (43c outside) I got it to POST and working again. Had it run 3DMark03 for 12 hours. Hopefully it will live until I can use it for a YouTube video project I have in mind.

http://www.asus.com/support/Download/1/21/5/1/22/

It has been quite a while since I was able to add a new MIDI daughterboard to my collection, but thanks to a fellow VOGONS member, this arrived two days ago. It's a NOS Media Vision Pro 3-D Sound Card with the Media Vision Korg Wavetable board! Since it's quite special to me, I am still in doubt whether I should open the shrink wrap and box or not... 😀

CHiLL72 wrote:

Media Vision Pro 3-D Sound Card with the Media Vision Korg Wavetable board!

Congratulations! A rare DB card. I don't have this DB in my collection,only korg ai20 (same, but layout is differ).

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

You might want to consider going with SD cards instead. Check my YouTube channel, I just did a review. In 95% of cases the machi […]
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You might want to consider going with SD cards instead. Check my YouTube channel, I just did a review. In 95% of cases the machine just auto detects the settings. Even a 386 did this, but it has a 500 MB limit of course, so using EZ-Drive gets around that.

But Pentium or higher, shouldn't be a problem.

Bought this from Overclockers Australia forum. It's a very nice socket 939 board with Nvidia nForce4 Ultra chipset. Two Ram clips are missing and the chipset fan was busted. It also was very temperamental to get going, but after a shower and some love from the Australian warmth (43c outside) I got it to POST and working again. Had it run 3DMark03 for 12 hours. Hopefully it will live until I can use it for a YouTube video project I have in mind.

http://www.asus.com/support/Download/1/21/5/1/22/

Just to make clear, it was temperamental to get going, but it didn't post at all or was it just unstable? I usually do not endorse showering hardware, i always prefer to use a air compressor, but that's for cleaning. In your case i understand it was a last resort, and glady it worked! Maybe it had some conductive gunk somewere!

Looking foward to see that youtube video!

So, time for something a little unusual in the laptop world. This is a Compaq Presario 1694, and it may be one of the very best examples left in existence - even with a missing main battery and a CMOS battery that retains the settings, but doesn't have the juice to run the time. So, what's special about it? The fact it uses an AMD K6-2 CPU (which is indeed I why I bought it) at 427.5 MHz (officially 433 MHz, but that's not what 4.5x95 is), and to a lesser extent, the fact it has an ALi ALADDiN V M1541 chipset. The rest of the laptop is pretty standard; 14.1" TFT that runs at 1024x768, an ATI Rage Mobility M1 with 4MB of VRAM (which makes it much more usable than a lot of the 2D solutions most similar systems would've used at the time), ESS AudioDrive sound card, 64MB of RAM and a 4.8GB 4200RPM HDD. They didn't skimp on the other features either; it has a v90 56k modem in it, a 6x DVD drive and a floppy drive, some multimedia buttons and some pretty decent speakers. The only thing it really lacks at all is an ethernet port, and that's about it.

rick6 wrote:

Just to make clear, it was temperamental to get going, but it didn't post at all or was it just unstable? I usually do not endorse showering hardware, i always prefer to use a air compressor, but that's for cleaning. In your case i understand it was a last resort, and glady it worked! Maybe it had some conductive gunk somewere!

Looking foward to see that youtube video!

When I first got the board, I couldn't get it to POST. It would beep about the graphics card. Tried all sort of video cards, both PCIe slots, the usual. Even removed the BIOS chip and flashed it externally.

After the shower + dryer it still wouldn't work. I walked away, and some time later it POSTed the first time. It kept posting, installed Windows and 3DMark03. Machine shut down after running 3DMark03, which is usually power or temperature related. The fan was stuck, but still spinning, but likely at reduced speed. After I put that fan (see photo) ontop and also cleaned the sink and re-applied new paste it worked well. Ran 3DMark03 for 12 hours and then packed it all away like it was. Hopefully it will work when I need it again 😁