Bought these two 286 motherboards, sellers pictures.
Suntac 12 MHz

NEAT 20 MHz.

Should be with me next week, looking forward to having some fun times with 286, the generation I skipped at the time.

so I got this rather nice looking gameport-midi cable from china today, and while the plugs and cable seem to be really nice quality there seems to be no components inside whatsoever unfortunately, just a plain cable-to-cable connection, does that even work? 😕

You can have problems like described here: Issues connecting a Roland SC-55 to an old 486

Bought this Quadro 900xgl 128mb AGP to upgrade my win98se rig. Hope I can pick the right drivers for it, anyone have experience getting it to play nice with games? Wonder if I can use the Rivaturner program to soft mod it into a GF4 4600 or whatever the equal is.

buckeye wrote:

Bought this Quadro 900xgl 128mb AGP to upgrade my win98se rig. Hope I can pick the right drivers for it, anyone have experience getting it to play nice with games? Wonder if I can use the Rivaturner program to soft mod it into a GF4 4600 or whatever the equal is.

Its equal to a GF4 Ti4600

http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=334&card2=135

Nice lookin' mobos 😀

imi wrote:

so I got this rather nice looking gameport-midi cable from china today, and while the plugs and cable seem to be really nice quality there seems to be no components inside whatsoever unfortunately, just a plain cable-to-cable connection, does that even work? 😕

imi, check this thread:
Joyport (DB-15) to MIDI cable

Find of the day (junkyard)

It's got a metal badge on the back; "Department of Studies and Schoolsystems" -governmental

Anyways, from the pile of ISA cards I found the other day in that dumpster
this one is intriguing me,
can anybody identify it?

BIG HAUL!

WD Caviar 2250 (sadly dead)

WD Caviar 1210(working)

Hercules 3D Prophet Radeon 9700 Pro (idk how much VRAM though)

Epox EP-3VCM w/ P3 1GHz SL5DV & ECS G31T-M2 w/ Core 2 Quad Q6600

Gigabyte GV-RX30S128D-B (Radeon X300, 128MB)

cont'd

Gravis Gamepad Pro

Chaintech(?) Geforce 2 MX200 32MB AGP

PcBytes wrote:

Hercules 3D Prophet Radeon 9700 Pro (idk how much VRAM though)

received_2382566775366005.jpeg

128MB of course. 9700 Pro wasn't make as 64MB card, and you can easily find out, how much of VRAM R300 cards have (4 memory chips=64MB, 8 memory chips=128MB, one exception: 9800XT with 256MB within 8 chips as well).

Yeah, figured that out after I searched the PN number 😀

ATI 8500 64mb 3.3ns

Original clocks @ 275/275(550)... online reviews puts this particular video card @ 300/300(600) overclocked, but i will not be doing the same to find out, it was fun back in the day though, now i just run everything as is, this thing even rivals the GF4 Ti4400 video card.

FINALLY! 😎 😎 😎

Creative CT6200 (3D Blaster VLB) 2MB (New, Unsealed) (1995)

I love how they packed in all games that would ever support the card. 😜

amazing find Artex, kudos!

Fascinating...
I'm trying to find what it is, but the results are ambiguous...
Is that card based on some rebranded GLINT? Or is it some special chipset, only based on GLINT?

Grzyb wrote:

Fascinating...
I'm trying to find what it is, but the results are ambiguous...
Is that card based on some rebranded GLINT? Or is it some special chipset, only based on GLINT?

Some good info here! http://vintage3d.org/3dlabs.php#sthash.XPCkGggm.dpbs

OK, so it's a stripped-down GLINT 300SX.
BTW: that page claims it's "the only texture mapper for VL-Bus" - but what about the NVIDIA NV1 ?
NV1 has a texture unit as well - http://www.gpuzoo.com/GPU-NVIDIA/NV1_2_MB_VLB.html

Grzyb wrote:

OK, so it's a stripped-down GLINT 300SX.
BTW: that page claims it's "the only texture mapper for VL-Bus" - but what about the NVIDIA NV1 ?
NV1 has a texture unit as well - http://www.gpuzoo.com/GPU-NVIDIA/NV1_2_MB_VLB.html

I don't think I've ever seen NV1 in a VLB form factor. Not sure if this combo exists tbh. Article may be incorrect.

Artex wrote:

Creative CT6200 (3D Blaster VLB) 2MB (New, Unsealed) (1995)

blurks wrote:

That was the one from hard1k. I'm going to laugh so hard at the one who spent 5k on this beat up box... 🤣

Admittedly it looks better in your pictures. eBay really made it look like a f**king wreck.