tizzdizz wrote:

Guys - Why do I keep doing this?? I juuuust got rid of several machines that I didn't want. […]
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Guys - Why do I keep doing this?? I juuuust got rid of several machines that I didn't want.

But you know how it goes. Saw an ad for a guy selling his son's 3 old beige systems which he doesn't use anymore. $20 for all 3. I didn't need more!

System 1: Compaq Presario 5461, AMD K62-500AXP CPU, 192MB PC100 Ram, onboard video/sound

System 2: Custom Build Slot 1 PIII -600 Mhz, 384MB ram, ATI RagePro 128 video card, Sound Blaster 16 CT4170

System 3: Custom Build "Maximus" Cyrix Mii PR300 in AT case, 256MB ram, 2 floppy drives, 2 CD-rom drives, Full length Sound Blaster AWE32 CT3990.

All 3 post and are in very good condition! No hard drives, so I need to source some appropriate drives and build them out.

Sorry for posting in a hurry - just wanted to share!

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Just the soundblasters and Rage pro make that worth it. Good cases and PSUs can easily be traded. Better than the majority of CL posts I see.

tizzdizz wrote:

Guys - Why do I keep doing this??

I ask myself the same thing. I am in the middle of three restores and I am not sure why. 🤣. My wife wants to know why a laptop keyboard is in the dishwasher with her dishes. I just smile at her.

tizzdizz wrote:

System 3: Custom Build "Maximus" Cyrix Mii PR300 in AT case, 256MB ram, 2 floppy drives, 2 CD-rom drives, Full length Sound Blaster AWE32 CT3990.

Those "VIA" stickers on the chipsets look real suspicious... I wonder what chipset that board actually uses.

(Most likely it's a PC Chips board; this is the sort of thing they are infamous for.)

Custom builds are always the best. Never know what you're going to find!

SW-SSG wrote:

tizzdizz wrote:

System 3: Custom Build "Maximus" Cyrix Mii PR300 in AT case, 256MB ram, 2 floppy drives, 2 CD-rom drives, Full length Sound Blaster AWE32 CT3990.

Those "VIA" stickers on the chipsets look real suspicious... I wonder what chipset that board actually uses.

(Most likely it's a PC Chips board; this is the sort of thing they are infamous for.)

Nice catch, reminds me of the article I read recently about the fake cache chips. "What chipset do you want the board to have?"

zip tied a 65watt e2200 cooler with broken pushpin's to a Pentium D because they were both the only spare dual core and spare lga775 cooler. Seems to push around 52c idle and 64c under load. Not as bad as I was expecting TBH.

xplus93 wrote:

tizzdizz wrote:

Guys - Why do I keep doing this?? I juuuust got rid of several machines that I didn't want. […]
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Guys - Why do I keep doing this?? I juuuust got rid of several machines that I didn't want.

But you know how it goes. Saw an ad for a guy selling his son's 3 old beige systems which he doesn't use anymore. $20 for all 3. I didn't need more!

System 1: Compaq Presario 5461, AMD K62-500AXP CPU, 192MB PC100 Ram, onboard video/sound

System 2: Custom Build Slot 1 PIII -600 Mhz, 384MB ram, ATI RagePro 128 video card, Sound Blaster 16 CT4170

System 3: Custom Build "Maximus" Cyrix Mii PR300 in AT case, 256MB ram, 2 floppy drives, 2 CD-rom drives, Full length Sound Blaster AWE32 CT3990.

All 3 post and are in very good condition! No hard drives, so I need to source some appropriate drives and build them out.

Sorry for posting in a hurry - just wanted to share!

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Just the soundblasters and Rage pro make that worth it. Good cases and PSUs can easily be traded. Better than the majority of CL posts I see.

How did you get rid of them?
Where are they now?

SW-SSG wrote:

tizzdizz wrote:

System 3: Custom Build "Maximus" Cyrix Mii PR300 in AT case, 256MB ram, 2 floppy drives, 2 CD-rom drives, Full length Sound Blaster AWE32 CT3990.

Those "VIA" stickers on the chipsets look real suspicious... I wonder what chipset that board actually uses.

(Most likely it's a PC Chips board; this is the sort of thing they are infamous for.)

You're right about the brand: 😜 http://www.amoretro.de/2012/10/matsonic-ms-51 … otherboard.html

xplus93 wrote:

SW-SSG wrote:

tizzdizz wrote:

System 3: Custom Build "Maximus" Cyrix Mii PR300 in AT case, 256MB ram, 2 floppy drives, 2 CD-rom drives, Full length Sound Blaster AWE32 CT3990.

Those "VIA" stickers on the chipsets look real suspicious... I wonder what chipset that board actually uses.

(Most likely it's a PC Chips board; this is the sort of thing they are infamous for.)

Nice catch, reminds me of the article I read recently about the fake cache chips. "What chipset do you want the board to have?"

Heh, a litte bit off-topic here, but I was checking my 486 boards and found this 'cache' on one of them. Looks legit!

recieved a geforce4 4200 ti club 3D card in the mail yesterday, first time i got a piece of hardware from a smokers house 😲 , damn that heatsink was filthy (golden blackish) and the pcb covered with it aswell. Currently the heatsink is soaking to get all the filth off.

anyone got advice on which drivers to choose? only thing I came along were the 8.x beta drivers.

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recieved a geforce4 4200 ti club 3D card in the mail yesterday, first time i got a piece of hardware from a smokers house :excla […]
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recieved a geforce4 4200 ti club 3D card in the mail yesterday, first time i got a piece of hardware from a smokers house 😲 , damn that heatsink was filthy (golden blackish) and the pcb covered with it aswell. Currently the heatsink is soaking to get all the filth off.

anyone got advice on which drivers to choose? only thing I came along were the 8.x beta drivers.

The 42.x drivers are often cited around here as being a good blend of performance and compatibility.

tizzdizz wrote:

Guys - Why do I keep doing this?? I juuuust got rid of several machines that I didn't want. […]
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Guys - Why do I keep doing this?? I juuuust got rid of several machines that I didn't want.

But you know how it goes. Saw an ad for a guy selling his son's 3 old beige systems which he doesn't use anymore. $20 for all 3. I didn't need more!

System 1: Compaq Presario 5461, AMD K62-500AXP CPU, 192MB PC100 Ram, onboard video/sound

System 2: Custom Build Slot 1 PIII -600 Mhz, 384MB ram, ATI RagePro 128 video card, Sound Blaster 16 CT4170

System 3: Custom Build "Maximus" Cyrix Mii PR300 in AT case, 256MB ram, 2 floppy drives, 2 CD-rom drives, Full length Sound Blaster AWE32 CT3990.

All 3 post and are in very good condition! No hard drives, so I need to source some appropriate drives and build them out.

Sorry for posting in a hurry - just wanted to share!

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What motherboard is in your Compaq? I've always found it troublesome to find this information online.
It could be a SiS 530 chipsetted board, which would be nice.

Your P3-600 is a Coppermine.

Very good haul!

As to why you do it? Well, partially because of this maybe:

dexvx wrote:

Custom builds are always the best. Never know what you're going to find!

It's a little bit like christmas every single time one opens up a custom system 😁

Bought this batch for $10:

Pentium III 500 & passive cooler to replace the loud 450 in my computer

Pentium 75, I kind of needed a first gen Socket 7 CPU for my collection

ELSA Winner II-A16 - Voodoo Banshee AGP, the real reason I bought this bunch

The pentium 75 is a socket 5 cpu, not a socket 7 one 😉 (even though it will fit and work perfectly in a socket 7)

My haul from this Sunday, everything 2 euro-doubloons each!:

Yamaha YM724 sound card. Already have one, however the other one didn't have an SB link soldered and for this price it was hard to pas it up

Cirrus Logic GD5446. Will make a nice replacement for my S3 Virge cards as the ones I have suffer from poor blackness levels

Aopen MX34 motherboard (VIA Apollo Pro133A chipset) with 1999's fastest CPU - P3 800.

OAK OTI-067 ISA VGA card with 512KB memory. Should come in handy if I ever manage to get a 386 build going. The tilted capacitor on the bottom needs to be replaced.

Never ever put this crappy OAK card in a 386, you'll slow it down a lot !

This is the only card I know that makes a POST screen to lag (using that card on a pentium 2 computer, the picture is displayed slowly ...)

The only computers it might not slow down will be an XT

Deksor wrote:

Never ever put this crappy OAK card in a 386, you'll slow it down a lot !

This is the only card I know that makes a POST screen to lag (using that card on a pentium 2 computer, the picture is displayed slowly ...)

The only computers it might not slow down will be an XT

Thanks for the heads up, will have to keep that in mind.

Picked up a Tandy 1000SL for $20. need to clean it up before i try booting it. A bit dirty and missing a rubber foot (anyone know a good source for these?) but otherwise ok.

Has another interesting hard card design inside. it's an 8086, so i wonder if the drive is ATA or XTA? hmmm

DaveJustDave wrote:

Picked up a Tandy 1000SL for $20.

Overall nice condition. Nice find. As far as the rubber feet, I usually just end up at the hardware store and buy clear rubber domed feet.

I've found an ISA s3 card. This is the first ISA S3 card I've found ! And it looks like it's the first one S3 ever made

BTW the chip is the P86C911. Unfortunately, when I insert it in my 386SX 25, the computer doesn't POST at all ... However, there are many tantalum caps onboard so some of them are probably making a short circuit and thus making the computer unable to POST ... I guess

I wonder how fast (or how slow ?) this card is. My fastest ISA card is a cirrus logic one (CL-GD5426 IIRC) at the moment.