Gered wrote:

dest wrote:

That case is my "holy grail" of sorts, but have not been able to find one (in fact the only one I've ever seen in person was the one we had back in the early 90's).

The power switch on these cases are just so satisfying. *CLUNK*.

Jade Falcon wrote:

I picked up a Asus 6800 512mb agp for 20$. Kind of regret it as I found out after words it was a ddr2 128bit card. Sadly the 5950 ultra I bought was not in stock.

Your aware those are insanely rare right? It took Kithilyn a couple of years to find 2 512MB 6800s IIRC

They arnt even the slightest bit rare, its the 512mb ddr3 ultras thst are rare. This card is a asus n6800 with 128bit ddr. Asus pumped them out by the dozen so to say. Mostly in 256mb versions. You find two or 3 one ebay at any given point, two on there right now.

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

Jade Falcon wrote:

I picked up a Asus 6800 512mb agp for 20$. Kind of regret it as I found out after words it was a ddr2 128bit card. Sadly the 5950 ultra I bought was not in stock.

Your aware those are insanely rare right? It took Kithilyn a couple of years to find 2 512MB 6800s IIRC

Jade Falcon wrote:

They arnt even the slightest bit rare, its the 512mb ddr3 ultras thst are rare. This card is a asus n6800 with 128bit ddr. Asus pumped them out by the dozen so to say. Mostly in 256mb versions. You find two or 3 one ebay at any given point, two on there right now.

Yep.. also, Jade got the AGP version. Those are fairly common. And normally 256MB (But some were 512MB AGP). What I got is the 512MB, PCI-Express version that supports SLI.

What I got is the rare things.

I just cant get anything right. At all.
The abit sa8 I bought recently has a dead agp port. Ether no video, jail bars or a yellow screen. At first i thought all my agp parts were dead.

Frist the vnf100 was out of stock, them the 5950 now the sa8 is a dud. Am i cruised?
Anyway i filed for a retun and bought an ABIT Fatal1ty AN8 SLI. Nut sure what ill use for a video card. I did order a vnf100 on ebay that was install on a 9800gtx, but thsts abot too new for the system if you ask me.

Jade Falcon wrote:

I just cant get anything right. At all. The abit sa8 I bought recently has a dead agp port. Ether no video, jail bars or a yell […]
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I just cant get anything right. At all.
The abit sa8 I bought recently has a dead agp port. Ether no video, jail bars or a yellow screen. At first i thought all my agp parts were dead.

Frist the vnf100 was out of stock, them the 5950 now the sa8 is a dud. Am i cruised?
Anyway i filed for a retun and bought an ABIT Fatal1ty AN8 SLI. Nut sure what ill use for a video card. I did order a vnf100 on ebay that was install on a 9800gtx, but thsts abot too new for the system if you ask me.

I've messed with a AMD socket 939 SLI system, even one that can do 16x-16x SLI @ full speed, and I can confirm that K8 cpu's (Even the 2MB Dual cores), even overclocked to 3.7 ghz, can not benefit from anything much beyond a top end 9800 series card. I had a 9800GT in mine and saw literally zero scaling with a second 9800GT, and saw the exact same result with a single GTX-260 in it. Even some negative scaling in 3dmark 2001se with two 9800 GT's in it. That's right about the top end for 939 SLI. Compared to when I had tried my two 6800 Ultra PCIE cards in it I saw about +90% gain from the second gpu over the first one. So it will scale well with the 6000 series.. and maybe a little with the 7000 series on the top end.

Early AMD SLI systems just did scale very well, up to a point, it's not a problem of the platform, it's just the CPU's are easily maxed out with a decent single card is all (CPU Bottleneck).

Saw a Compaq FP 7317 monitor for $10 at a thrift store today, and had to get it. I've been wanting to get a second 4:3 monitor, since sometimes I'm using a few old systems at the same time.

This one compliments my FP 5315 nicely and supports a better resolution for the 98SE machine.

This NMB keyboard... shame the DIN to PS/2 adapter isn't here yet.

oeuvre wrote:

This NMB keyboard... shame the DIN to PS/2 adapter isn't here yet.

I was curious about those. Are they actually mechanical keyboards? Or just clickity-sounding rubber-dome ones?

They're rubber domes with switches inside the keycaps, if that makes sense.

I bought a thing off Craigslist:

Cost me $40 I didn't have, thankfully ramen noodles are cheap. This thing is CRUSTY AF. Seller told me it made the chime, but didn't display. So I am not surprised to get it at that price. He also was the original owner and bought it at the end of high school. I have an idea what the problem probably is, and it's going to get a good retrobrite treatment. So plenty of material for my crappy youtube channel. 😀

Picked up a new old stock Diamond Viper/ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 512MB AGP for $38. Pretty happy about the price since it's new and I have heard these outperform the Nvidia 7800GS AGP cards. On the back it has what looks like thermal material exposed, never seen something like this. Any ideas?

kithylin wrote:

Jade Falcon wrote:

I just cant get anything right. At all. The abit sa8 I bought recently has a dead agp port. Ether no video, jail bars or a yell […]
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I just cant get anything right. At all.
The abit sa8 I bought recently has a dead agp port. Ether no video, jail bars or a yellow screen. At first i thought all my agp parts were dead.

Frist the vnf100 was out of stock, them the 5950 now the sa8 is a dud. Am i cruised?
Anyway i filed for a retun and bought an ABIT Fatal1ty AN8 SLI. Nut sure what ill use for a video card. I did order a vnf100 on ebay that was install on a 9800gtx, but thsts abot too new for the system if you ask me.

I've messed with a AMD socket 939 SLI system, even one that can do 16x-16x SLI @ full speed, and I can confirm that K8 cpu's (Even the 2MB Dual cores), even overclocked to 3.7 ghz, can not benefit from anything much beyond a top end 9800 series card. I had a 9800GT in mine and saw literally zero scaling with a second 9800GT, and saw the exact same result with a single GTX-260 in it. Even some negative scaling in 3dmark 2001se with two 9800 GT's in it. That's right about the top end for 939 SLI. Compared to when I had tried my two 6800 Ultra PCIE cards in it I saw about +90% gain from the second gpu over the first one. So it will scale well with the 6000 series.. and maybe a little with the 7000 series on the top end.

Early AMD SLI systems just did scale very well, up to a point, it's not a problem of the platform, it's just the CPU's are easily maxed out with a decent single card is all (CPU Bottleneck).

Agreed. I manly bought it as it fit my needs and all my parts would work with it, cpu aside.
I may go 6800gt sli or 7950gt sli but I dint know yet. Ill need a second vnf100 tgst i know.
Even had the original guru panle.

liqmat wrote:

On the back it has what looks like thermal material exposed, never seen something like this. Any ideas?

That's a thermal pad covering the AGP-to-PCIe bridge chip. It's normal; the various AGP versions of the X1xxx series and newer tend to have these.

luckybob wrote:

I bought a thing off Craigslist: [...]

Nice catch! Hopefully it's an easy crt repair, maybe cold solder joints? Also what yt channel? 😕

keropi wrote:

luckybob wrote:

I bought a thing off Craigslist: [...]

Nice catch! Hopefully it's an easy crt repair, maybe cold solder joints? Also what yt channel? 😕

Well I wasn't planning on using this thread to advertise, but due to popular demand...

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXrPbaNjSmZ_SM-Ro9FQsGw

^ niceeeee

luckybob wrote:

keropi wrote:

luckybob wrote:

I bought a thing off Craigslist: [...]

Nice catch! Hopefully it's an easy crt repair, maybe cold solder joints? Also what yt channel? 😕

Well I wasn't planning on using this thread to advertise, but due to popular demand...

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXrPbaNjSmZ_SM-Ro9FQsGw

Now that's my kinda channel! Is likely the internal battery and/or leaking caps with no irreversible damage. If you're lucky.

SW-SSG wrote:

liqmat wrote:

On the back it has what looks like thermal material exposed, never seen something like this. Any ideas?

That's a thermal pad covering the AGP-to-PCIe bridge chip. It's normal; the various AGP versions of the X1xxx series and newer tend to have these.

Thanks. I am mostly an NVidia user so this just threw me a bit.

Voodoo3 I bought off a scrapper arrived. No post due to the capacitor at C79 being completely obliterated when the scrapper tore the heatsink off. I kind of expected this. The board signals complete VGA failure.

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/0RJfC

Anything else there I need to fix? If it's just that capacitor it shouldn't be too hard. I'm a little out of my league here.