That's not a fair comparison... Yours is 875P and Skyscraper asked for 865PE. 😉

Anyway I vaguely remembered seeing a Gigabyte P4 Titan 8PENXP put up for sale in the local forums a couple of years back. I wouldn't have remembered the exact model but I remembered it had 1 distinguishing feature: an add-in board which contributes to the power phases of the motherboard. Also notice the six DIMMs!

Zenn wrote:

That's not a fair comparison... Yours is 875P and Skyscraper asked for 865PE. 😉

Anyway I vaguely remembered seeing a Gigabyte P4 Titan 8PENXP put up for sale in the local forums a couple of years back. I wouldn't have remembered the exact model but I remembered it had 1 distinguishing feature: an add-in board which contributes to the power phases of the motherboard. Also notice the six DIMMs!

That looks like a very interesting board, I have never seen one for sale here in Sweden. I bet its very rare just like the Soltek SL-865PRO2-FGR.

The Supermicro board also looks nice even if it is a Canterwood board.

None of them look half as good as the Soltek board though and looks is also a feature 😉

Zenn wrote:

That's not a fair comparison... Yours is 875P and Skyscraper asked for 865PE. 😉

Anyway I vaguely remembered seeing a Gigabyte P4 Titan 8PENXP put up for sale in the local forums a couple of years back. I wouldn't have remembered the exact model but I remembered it had 1 distinguishing feature: an add-in board which contributes to the power phases of the motherboard. Also notice the six DIMMs!

That looks like my P4 "Granite Bay" board - the Gigabyte GA-8INXP - first one to use Dual Channel DDR and has that "Dual Power System" add-in board too.

2x Xeon 5110 (Woodcrest / Conroe ; 1,6 GHz)

2x Opteron 254 (Troy / San Diego ; 2,8 GHz)

Radeon X800 GTO (R430, 256MB GDDR3)

This was posted like 5 min ago with a buyout price of ~24 Euro + 7 Euro shipping.

Its not available anymore... 😀

Lucky!

Let us know the exact specs when you have it...

Yeah. Make a thread about it or something, skyscraper. And post the link here, I wanna hear about that and what it is. Looks like Pentium-MMX. But using both sdram and 72-pin ram together is weird, normally I would of thought most systems wouldn't allow that.

Its a Dual Pentium Pro board with two CPUs and some memory 😀
In the picture we can read P6NDI, Google says ADVANCED INTEGRATION RESEARCH, INC. also known as AIR which we also can read on the board 😀

I will post about the board in the Dual Pentium Pro thread later. It will be some days until it gets here.

Got a Slot-A 750 with a Thunderbird core! Time for another old skool rig build with some Voodoo 2 SLI lovin!

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Turned out to be:
2x Intel PIII-S 1133

Tyan Tiger 230T (S2507T)
With damageD CPU socket where the cooler clamps, so it needs those wide clamps.

3x512MB Registered PC133 SDRAM

Asus V6800DDR TVR (not sure yet if 32MB of 64MB version)

A whole bunch of Maxtor 250GB drives

More images: http://imgur.com/a/xHRnF

Also picked up a nice looking AT case with:

Asus SP97-V mainboard (Socket 7 SiS 5598 chipset)

Downside: they were used as ISDN 'servers', and all brackets for serial/parallel/USB/etc are not included 🙁 Will have to get some!

Intel Pentium 133MHz

Elsa Winner 1000/T2D-2 S3 Trio64V2/DX

Some have memory, hard drive and FDD.

I liked them and they were cheap (25 euros each) so I got four of them 😀

More images here:
http://imgur.com/a/w9hTD

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That's not a fair comparison... Yours is 875P and Skyscraper asked for 865PE. 😉

Anyway I vaguely remembered seeing a Gigabyte P4 Titan 8PENXP put up for sale in the local forums a couple of years back. I wouldn't have remembered the exact model but I remembered it had 1 distinguishing feature: an add-in board which contributes to the power phases of the motherboard. Also notice the six DIMMs!

I knew a guy who had that board (or a similar one) with the daughter board for the power regulator.
He had no end of trouble with it and ended up swapping it for a different board.

Im on a roll 😀 2x Pentium Pro 512 KB for 26 Euro.
Not as cheap as the board with memory and CPUs but still.

kithylin wrote:

Yeah. Make a thread about it or something, skyscraper. And post the link here, I wanna hear about that and what it is. Looks like Pentium-MMX. But using both sdram and 72-pin ram together is weird, normally I would of thought most systems wouldn't allow that.

It depends, as long as the DIMM (SD-ram is a class of dimm, not simply the type in it's wholeness) is the same spec as the SIMM (Ie EDO) and at the same voltage they can sometimes work together fine. For example, I have two 16mb sticks of SIMM and one 16mb stick of DIMM (all edo) making a total of 48mb ram. The only downside is that the board stil can not exceed the normal max.

Ie 3x dimms of whatever spec (edo/sd-ram/etc) of a max of 128mb each reaches a board of that era's max of 384mb. SIMM's come in pairs however, and I gather that each simm slot takes 1x 64mb EDO. And to have one in each slot gives you a total 'bank' of 128mb. Now in order to pair it up with DIMM then bank 0 (or it could be DIMM slot 1) has to have nothing in it at all. Thus you can still max out the board's 384mb with 256mb of EDO DIMM and 128mb (2x 64mb -one bank remember) of EDO SIMM's...

But of course, it depends whether the voltage requirements are the same (otherwise you'll fry the DIMM's, they're on a lower voltage) and whether the board can physically do this. Plus EDO DIMM is quite difficult to find.

Bought this 'little' boy, this morning: ViewSonic P220f 22" CRT, for my FreeDOS & Win9x builds... boys, this is HUGE (and heavy 😜):

I had a similar View Sonic but it was a mere 19". I remember that thing was huge and weighed a tonne. I can only image what 22 inches feels like.

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I had a similar View Sonic but it was a mere 19". I remember that thing was huge and weighed a tonne.

55lbs; I've got two. They remind me that whatever I think of the quality of CRT, I'm getting too old to heft the stuff. My big-screen future is inevitably panel.

I have two of these... 64lbs. And another one that's even heavier. Not much fun hauling these to/from the attic. 🙁
http://i.imgur.com/fpogu9Q.jpg

pewpewpew wrote:

Anonymous Coward wrote:

I had a similar View Sonic but it was a mere 19". I remember that thing was huge and weighed a tonne.

55lbs; I've got two. They remind me that whatever I think of the quality of CRT, I'm getting too old to heft the stuff. My big-screen future is inevitably panel.

jwt27 wrote:

I have two of these... 64lbs. And another one that's even heavier. Not much fun hauling these to/from the attic. 🙁
http://i.imgur.com/fpogu9Q.jpg

It gets a tad personal here but I won't go in to all the details. Just that I got smashed head-on by a drunk driver 9 years ago, and even though I'm only 32 now.. already my back is already permanently damaged in several spots. So no more lifting heavy things for me. I have enough difficulty hauling my towers from a couple older machines from the floor to a desk even though it's just about 6ft distance, and they're only average about 30-40 lbs. Moving a CRT around is out of the question for me. I could do it but I'd end up sore for a few days afterwards, so.. nope. All LCD's and LED panels for me now, and I have to cope with whatever issues they might bring using em on old computers, no choice.

jwt27 wrote:

I have two of these... 64lbs. And another one that's even heavier. Not much fun hauling these to/from the attic. 🙁
http://i.imgur.com/fpogu9Q.jpg

I used to have a Eizo 21". Awesome picture quality, terrible form factor and weight. When I replaced it with a 22" LCD I never looked back... until I found out that LCDs don't support resolutions lower than 640x480 😠