Batyra wrote:

Artex wrote:

^^ with CMS chips too! Grats.

So it's Sound Blaster 1.0 - am I right?
Without CMS chips that would be SB 1.5?

Yep! I think there has been some debate but I generally follow the top post since he's a VOGON's member and regarded as one of the most knowledgeable on this audio stuff (and much more).

Info here:
http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2012/10/a … know-about.html

"The Sound Blaster 1.5 is the same card as the Sound Blaster 1.0 but it has two empty sockets for SAA-1099 chips"

and here:
http://www.os2museum.com/wp/sound-blaster-1-0-or-1-5/

and here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Blaster#S … 320A.2C_CT1320B

@Artex thanks
I started reaserch when you mentioned about CMS chips and I've read them already... Great pack of new knowledge! wow!

Got another bunch of parts today, now ready to test them. Paid 5€ for all of then

MSI K7N2 (MS-6570 ver 1.1)
AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2.0 GHz, FSB 266)
Chaintech Geforce4 ti 4600
Kingston HyperX KHX3000/512 (DDR 366/370 512 MB)
Fan (not shown)
PCI/slot covers (not shown)
300 watt PSU
CPU cooler

While looking through PCI cards on ebay I came across one that was labeled "VGA Graphics Card" with some reference to Gainword. I clicked the next page, then decided to go back and take a closer look. What I saw shocked me. It was a PCI card with the ARK2000PV chipset. Whenever I've search this chipset in the past, there is either nothing, or maybe one or two, and they are typically $50 or higher, sometimes much higher. This one? $10 with free shipping. Bought it immediately. 😎

nvidia Quadro FX-5500. Which is basically a full-speed Full fledged G71 core card just like the 7900 GTX, except with 1GB video ram instead of the 512 MB on the 7900 GTX.

Had to go back and forth 3 times with the seller via best-offer but ultimately ended up paying $29 with free shipping for it. It wasn't good enough for me that it was already $35 with free shipping... no.. I have to be cheapskate and try for more. Whatever.. they had best offer in the listing so I decided "what the heck" see how low they would go.

Hoping to get this installed and working with my "Ultimate Win98se" system. I found and repaired a power supply yesterday in one of my closets and so you may see an update to that thread soon either later this week or next week when ever card gets here.

Thread for that is over here: ..

Update, i tested the Athlon XP stuff and all is working, even the Geforce4 ti 4600 card, i guess i got such a good deal with this hardware

I've got this card today:

Just when I thought I wasn't gonna get older stuff I scored this locally. Suffice to say it was a pretty good deal, the "starter pack" came with a PCChips M537 mobo, Pentium 166, 64MB SIMM, leds, speaker, 300W AT supply with switch, Seagate 3GB HDD and a Trident video card. Around 97 I had a very similar setup, though mine had a Cyrix 686 P233.
Do you think a PCI PS/2 card will work?

Got these three items in the mail today. Been looking at avaliability on eBay to see how many is in the wild.
I just can't seem to find any DX4-120 through a quick search.
Perhaps I have not searched good enough, but, ehm.... Are the AMD 486dx4-120 rare or something?

Carlos S. M. wrote:

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Got another bunch of parts today, now ready to test them. Paid 5€ for all of then

MSI K7N2 (MS-6570 ver 1.1)
AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2.0 GHz, FSB 266)
Chaintech Geforce4 ti 4600
Kingston HyperX KHX3000/512 (DDR 366/370 512 MB)
Fan (not shown)
PCI/slot covers (not shown)
300 watt PSU
CPU cooler

That would make a really nice 98/XP dual system.

brostenen wrote:

Perhaps I have not searched good enough, but, ehm.... Are the AMD 486dx4-120 rare or something?

I don't know if they are but the AMDs were much better overclockers than the Intel parts so it's almost irrelevant. Had an Am486DX-100 in my first build and overclocked it with ease. No stability or heat issues whatsoever. Although, each chip is unique...

If you have a board capable of 50Mhz (not all were) it would be interesting to see if you could push your DX4 to 150MHz, provided your cards could handle the bump in bus speed.

brassicGamer wrote:

brostenen wrote:

Perhaps I have not searched good enough, but, ehm.... Are the AMD 486dx4-120 rare or something?

I don't know if they are but the AMDs were much better overclockers than the Intel parts so it's almost irrelevant. Had an Am486DX-100 in my first build and overclocked it with ease. No stability or heat issues whatsoever. Although, each chip is unique...

If you have a board capable of 50Mhz (not all were) it would be interesting to see if you could push your DX4 to 150MHz, provided your cards could handle the bump in bus speed.

Mmmmm.... Yeah.... 150/50 just seems like a stupid move in my book. I am keeping my collection for historic purpouses, so I have no real interrest in OC'ing my stuff. On the other hand, running that Dx4 like that, should give a nice boost for gaming. I might sell the 5x86-133 or swap it for something else. Personally, I have not really made up my mind on it yet. It's kind of like the same with my IBM Thinkpad 365x (P-133). To sell or not. That is the question. 😁

Anyway.... OC'ing are just not my kind of ball game. 🤣

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I've got this card today:

6800LE AGP. The fan' guard / dust filter thing is missing...

Oh yeah. The card runs at 350 / 700 - them' is GT clocks - except for the memory of course, witch I believe is GDDR1 and not GDDR3 like it would be on the GT / Ultra. The LE has 8 out of 16 pp's enabled, and the other 8 can be enabled with rivatuner. Unfortunately there is no way to permanently mod the board into a full 16p setup, so if you move it to another computer and want the full 16p you need to install rivatuner and enable them on that machine as well.

Got this Micronics D5CUB (Socket 7, 430HX chipset):

The board seems pretty nice, and the manual is comprehensive and well-written (no broken english). If I find the pinout for the PS/2 mouse connector it will probably become my main socket 7 board.

My two latest purchases:

- An Asus 8600GT card, nothing special but it has a good looking cooler and it's a rare 256MB version, so it's going to be part of my experimental PCI express and 945 chipset W98 build (I bought it for that purpose, in fact)

- And, way more special, a HP Pavilion HDX9350 "laptop". If you look closely, what's on top of the keyboard is not a cell phone, is a full 10 inch tablet, so yes, it's that BIG, in fact the screen is 20" and it weights 7KG (about 14 pounds for imperial system lovers).
It's a real behemot, but surprisingly usable and really feature rich (it has two HDs, bluray and even a DVB card with aerial socket) and consistent with the multimedia theme it has a very good screen and the best sound system I've ever heard in a laptop, we're talking about nearly hi-fi sound here.
I bought it basically for the "lol" (and because it was cheap 🤣 ) but probably it's going to be my everyday machine, I like it way more than what i first thought.

My Motherboard/CPU/RAM from ebay arrived today. It's a FIC PA-2013, AMD K6-III 400Mhz and a 64MB stick of RAM I don't know anything about 😊

Can't test it until my new video card arrives (shipped today), that'll be a AOpen PT75 Plus II graphics adapter.

I know its not PC hardware, but it is still vintage. Picked up this little gem for a steal off my local craigslist.

Best part is, it works. Bad part is, I have absolutely no software for it.

kanecvr wrote:

6800LE AGP. The fan' guard / dust filter thing is missing...

Oh yeah. The card runs at 350 / 700 - them' is GT clocks - except for the memory of course, witch I believe is GDDR1 and not GDDR3 like it would be on the GT / Ultra. The LE has 8 out of 16 pp's enabled, and the other 8 can be enabled with rivatuner.

Where you can see that it's a LE version? Looking at these pictures / unboxing video, i can't see any difference from optical point of view...
I think, i have to test it whether it's a LE or a normal 6800...

WinFast A400 TDH:
http://ixbtlabs.com/articles2/gffx/nv40-3-p1.html
http://www.ixbt.com/video2/images/nv40-3/lead … with-cooler.jpg

unboxing WinFast A400 LE TDH:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x5VCglt27o
(picture from card @ 5.50)

Probably because this is a 128MB card. I believe LE came with 128MB and GT 256MB only!

F2bnp wrote:

Probably because this is a 128MB card. I believe LE came with 128MB and GT 256MB only!

Have you seen my link which i've posted before.

There is this data written:
Leadtek WinFast A400 TDH
AGP x8/x4 interface, 128 MB DDR SDRAM, allocated in 8 chips on the front side of the PCB.
Hynix memory chips, 2.8ns access time which corresponds to 350 (700) MHz and which is the frequency the memory works at, 325MHz GPU frequency, 256-bit memory bus, 12 (3x4) pixel pipelines.

http://ixbtlabs.com/articles2/gffx/nv40-3-p1.html