Got a package in the mail today with these items.
It was well packed (ESR bags and bubble wrap), and a few soundcards need a shower. (that's totally fine with me 😀 )
Otherwise it looks good, clean and in working order.

In the package there were:

- One Mozart ISA soundcard.
- Two Opti based ISA soundcards.
- One Spectrum ISA soundcard.
- One CL-5424 ISA vga card.
- One Voodoo2 12mb.
- One Lucky Star LS-486e Motherboard.

Looking forward to play with all this stuff. (making dobbel post as I have 9 files)
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That'll keep you busy for a while!

I bought lots of stuff on eBay, will take a while to arrive. Two socket 754 PCIe boards, a Gigabyte P35 Core 2 Duo board, some AMD AM2 processors, a Sandy Bridge Pentium CPU, Pentium D and Celeron D CPUs, Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad, coloured jumpers and other bits and pieces 😀 Got the Extreme editions, you can lower the multiplier and simulate other CPUs. When you do the math, they are actually decent value vs. buying all the models.

The P35 board will come in handy as I can benchmark a wide range of CPUs, from Pentium 4 to Core 2 Quad. I do have some Intel boards already, but Intel being Intel, only a selected range of CPUs are supported.

Eager to finish off my Intel vs AMD season 1 and start a new one with PCIe and a faster graphics card so these faster CPUs can show what they can do! Also waiting for a UV EPROM eraser, a new programmer, an assortment of EPROM, EEPROM and Flash chips...

Should keep me busy over the upcoming holidays!

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

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That'll keep you busy for a while!

I bought lots of stuff on eBay, will take a while to arrive. Two socket 754 PCIe boards, a Gigabyte P35 Core 2 Duo board, some AMD AM2 processors, a Sandy Bridge Pentium CPU, Pentium D and Celeron D CPUs, Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad, coloured jumpers and other bits and pieces 😀 Got the Extreme editions, you can lower the multiplier and simulate other CPUs. When you do the math, they are actually decent value vs. buying all the models.

The P35 board will come in handy as I can benchmark a wide range of CPUs, from Pentium 4 to Core 2 Quad. I do have some Intel boards already, but Intel being Intel, only a selected range of CPUs are supported.

Eager to finish off my Intel vs AMD season 1 and start a new one with PCIe and a faster graphics card so these faster CPUs can show what they can do! Also waiting for a UV EPROM eraser, a new programmer, an assortment of EPROM, EEPROM and Flash chips...

Should keep me busy over the upcoming holidays!

If you got the Extreme Editions of the Pentium D (Pentium Extreme Edition 840, 955 and 965), don't forget these have Hyperthreading Enabled unlike the Pentium D conuterparts. Also nice buy. I was once close to getting a Pentium Extreme Edition 965 for 39 €...

Carlos S. M. wrote:

If you got the Extreme Editions of the Pentium D (Pentium Extreme Edition 840, 955 and 965), don't forget these have Hyperthreading Enabled unlike the Pentium D conuterparts. Also nice buy. I was once close to getting a Pentium Extreme Edition 965 for 39 €...

Yea I got my 965 ages ago. For some reason there were a lot of these CPUs on sale. The 478 EE were harder to find.

Bought an 17" LG Flatron off Ebay last week.

That was going to be pretty cool playing some Dune or Rise of The Dragon on. Something disastrous happened in transit though.

So sad.

I bought a Radeon 8500 AGP 😀

@21603
I am so sorry for you... I als had to learn the hard way that chances are way below 10% to get stuff like CRTs and PCs properly shipped... I will only pick up locally from now on 🙁

What I find amazing is how the plastic parts are all shattered and the screen tube itself is intact (degraded plastics?). I hope it was sent by registered or insured mail?

yawetaG wrote:

What I find amazing is how the plastic parts are all shattered and the screen tube itself is intact (degraded plastics?). I hope it was sent by registered or insured mail?

It was sent registered, sign on delivery. As for the plastic, I thought that at first, but it looks (feels?) to still be fairly sturdy. The box looks like they've had some fun with it down at the footy oval so I'm guessing its taken some hard knocks. The glass also had a thick sheet of foam taped over it to protect it.

I tried to avoid buying online, but I just couldn't find a CRT locally. Recyclers don't stock and sell them any more because they can't dispose of them so they only take in LCD monitors and I already have a spare 17" one so I don't need or want it for these machines. DOS is arse on an LCD.

You could repair the plastic, superglue is amazing stuff

$19 total shipped off ebay.

This is why I will never buy / sell fragile items on eBay again. Too much risk as a buyer and way too much risk as a seller. 🙁

I now have in my possession a SANYO MBC-555 "xt" computer... not sure what to do with it tbh , looks cool though.
specs: http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=473

I always thought the engraved AMD DX5-133V16BGC chips had newer datecodes than the ones with the printed white lettering, that is, until I saw this photo. I wonder why they produced these two differences at the same time...

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

I bought lots of stuff on eBay, will take a while to arrive. Two socket 754 PCIe boards, a Gigabyte P35 Core 2 Duo board, some AMD AM2 processors, a Sandy Bridge Pentium CPU, Pentium D and Celeron D CPUs, Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad, coloured jumpers and other bits and pieces 😀 Got the Extreme editions, you can lower the multiplier and simulate other CPUs. When you do the math, they are actually decent value vs. buying all the models.

The P35 board will come in handy as I can benchmark a wide range of CPUs, from Pentium 4 to Core 2 Quad. I do have some Intel boards already, but Intel being Intel, only a selected range of CPUs are supported.

Here's a curious thing : You can lower multi even on locked CPU's (SpeedStep support required), BUT 90nm Pentiums (6xx/8xx) can't usually go lower than "x14" multi (total min. is x12), and 65nm Pentiums (6x1/9xx), can't go lower than "x12" (even Extreme Editions have those limits).

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

Yea I got my 965 ages ago. For some reason there were a lot of these CPUs on sale. The 478 EE were harder to find.

How far you overclocked that PXE 965 ?
That P35 MB will have a hard life 😁
Hope it's GA-P35-DS3L or higher...
PS. Some P35 boards doesn't support 533MHz FSB, BUT if you BSEL Mod a 533MHz CPU to 800MHz FSB... it should/could run on them.

My additional 5x86 chips showed up today as well. 5 CPUs, 5 Heatsinks, 5 16mb SIMMs, and 5 VIA based SBC boards for $45 shipped.

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How far you overclocked that PXE 965 ? That P35 MB will have a hard life :D Hope it's GA-P35-DS3L or higher... PS. Some P35 boar […]
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How far you overclocked that PXE 965 ?
That P35 MB will have a hard life 😁
Hope it's GA-P35-DS3L or higher...
PS. Some P35 boards doesn't support 533MHz FSB, BUT if you BSEL Mod a 533MHz CPU to 800MHz FSB... it should/could run on them.

Not into overclocking 😀

Yea it's a GA-P35-DS3L. That board I've seen quite often locally, easy to get a replacement.

My SBCs with AMD P75s will be arriving soon. How did you pop off the heatsink/fan? Freezer or brute force?

I believe you can release the tension on those heatsinks by turning them and sliding them off.

boxpressed wrote:

My SBCs with AMD P75s will be arriving soon. How did you pop off the heatsink/fan? Freezer or brute force?

I'd love to hear some tips also. The last time I removed a glued heatsink, it took all the writing with it 😢