Stojke wrote:

But scsi is more cool 🤣

^This!..🤣

133MHz wrote:

Today I unearthed this beauty of a system amongst a pile of boring Pentium 4 boxes at my usual flea market:

-Everex 386-

You bum! I've been looking for one of those for years. The last one I came across had the mobo switched out and that made the front display inoperable. I got the matching ISA cards and external QIC tape drive that matches up with the machine.

Got these today: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/201372247337?_trks … K%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Have a guess what it's used for?

Tip: Makes something really annoying a bit easier 🤣

^ use them to easier connect led/power/reset cables to mobos?

keropi wrote:

^ use them to easier connect led/power/reset cables to mobos?

Awww, you got it straight away 🤣

I remember an Asus Core 2 Duo board coming with something like this:

Most useful idea ever 🤣 Mucking around with front header panel cables in a tight case is such a PAIN.

That bit of hardware is called ASUS Q-Connector: http://event.asus.com/2012/mb/tco_qr/pages/Su … -Connector.html

Yes. Well turns out the pins are not thick enough 😒 And too short.

Might need to shop around a bit more.

CelGen wrote:

133MHz wrote:

Today I unearthed this beauty of a system amongst a pile of boring Pentium 4 boxes at my usual flea market:

-Everex 386-

You bum! I've been looking for one of those for years. The last one I came across had the mobo switched out and that made the front display inoperable. I got the matching ISA cards and external QIC tape drive that matches up with the machine.

When I opened it up the first time I noticed that the front display cable was unplugged from the motherboard. My OCD wanted to make me plug it back in but I noticed that the connector on the motherboard had no indication of which way around pin 1 is, so I left it alone for the time being. Later when cleaning it up I also noticed some sort of cloudy spot inside the display assembly, so I believe it's possible that some previous owner blew up the display by connecting it backwards. 🙁
I'm afraid to try it without being absolutely sure. I really hope that cloudiness is just dirt and not from a blown component.

The Asus Q-Connector thing is a good idea in principle, but IME it tends to come loose and erratically disable your front panel. Had to troubleshoot a couple of machines where this was the culprit of no power, no lights, etc. Hot-gluing it down would totally defeat the purpose. 😵

🤣 🤣 🤣

BOING!

keropi wrote:

🤣 🤣 🤣

Damn!

keropi wrote:

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How do you use those?
I found a picture of the card here
(from this auction)
But how does it connect to the main video card?
I don't see any sort of connector like the Voodoo 2 uses.
Or is everything done through the motherboard slot?

skitters wrote:

Or is everything done through the motherboard slot?

Yup, all over the PCI bus.

Artex wrote:

skitters wrote:

Or is everything done through the motherboard slot?

Yup, all over the PCI bus.

Could multiple of these be used together in the same system?

kithylin wrote:

Artex wrote:

skitters wrote:

Or is everything done through the motherboard slot?

Yup, all over the PCI bus.

Could multiple of these be used together in the same system?

Do you mean multiple PCX2s for a bigger performance gain? Or an combination of different cards with different drivers?

kithylin wrote:

Artex wrote:

skitters wrote:

Or is everything done through the motherboard slot?

Yup, all over the PCI bus.

Could multiple of these be used together in the same system?

PCI bandwith kills off the performance of one, why would you want several?

That picture on the box is a perfect representation of m3D. Having a huge potential, yet doomed, like a clever child with leukaemia.

RacoonRider wrote:

bandwith kills off the performance of one, why would you want several?

That picture on the box is a perfect representation of m3D. Having a huge potential, yet doomed, like a clever child with leukaemia.

Awful analogy but I agree on your PCI bandwidth statement. Unless he's looking to run a PCX2 and a PCX1 in the same system.

I have another ValuePoint 325T en route. A little banged up but with spare parts to rebuild some others I have.

Picked up a Compaq Presario 2800 Laptop. 40gb hard drive, 512mb of DDR 266 (need to find a pair of 512's to max it out) 1.8ghz Pentium 4 M Willamette cpu and ATI 7500 Mobility graphics with 64mb of dedicated memory + 64mb stolen from the system ram. My new work laptop,replacing a Thinkpad 770 😀 Review of the Compaq can be found here: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,668920,00.asp EDIT: (better review) http://www.anandtech.com/show/907

RacoonRider wrote:

That picture on the box is a perfect representation of m3D. Having a huge potential, yet doomed, like a clever child with leukaemia.

Fuck dude. That's dark. 🙁