133MHz wrote:

What surprised me the most is that one of the AT PSUs is really, really heavy. It's a 400W monster! I've never seen such a power […]
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What surprised me the most is that one of the AT PSUs is really, really heavy. It's a 400W monster! I've never seen such a powerful AT PSU! 😳

40 amps on the 5v Rail?! Goddamn, that's one heck of a 5v supply, I think the only other thing I've ever seen that had that much power on a 5v rail was a 1500w Silverstone power supply from a few years ago. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?It … N82E16817256054

Dant wrote:

40 amps on the 5v Rail?! Goddamn, that's one heck of a 5v supply, I think the only other thing I've ever seen that had that much power on a 5v rail was a 1500w Silverstone power supply from a few years ago. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?It … N82E16817256054

40A! Nice 😀 I've found an old PSU at work the other day, it has 35A on the 5V rail 😀

But the 12V rail is weak. So these are excellent for a high end Athlon XP machine, because they draw most of the power through the 5V.

133MHz wrote:

What surprised me the most is that one of the AT PSUs is really, really heavy. It's a 400W monster! I've never seen such a powerful AT PSU! 😳

What a badass AT PSU. It must have been intended for a multiproc server/lots of drives.

Skyscraper wrote:

Stojke wrote:

Hoarding = not good 😀

Hoarding is awesome, as long as you are not hoarding cats in a small apartment. 😜

Hoarding is indeed awesome, if the space is there for it.
Just imagine.... Private and small personal working museum at your disposal. 😉

Personal museum of 57 S3 virge cards, 25 ATi Rage's, 15 Sound Blaster 16s, 200 CD roms, Floppies, etc. 🤣

Stojke wrote:

Personal museum of 57 S3 virge cards, 25 ATi Rage's, 15 Sound Blaster 16s, 200 CD roms, Floppies, etc. 🤣

Not 57 cats? 😁

Dant wrote:

133MHz wrote:

What surprised me the most is that one of the AT PSUs is really, really heavy. It's a 400W monster! I've never seen such a power […]
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What surprised me the most is that one of the AT PSUs is really, really heavy. It's a 400W monster! I've never seen such a powerful AT PSU! 😳

40 amps on the 5v Rail?! Goddamn, that's one heck of a 5v supply, I think the only other thing I've ever seen that had that much power on a 5v rail was a 1500w Silverstone power supply from a few years ago. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?It … N82E16817256054

There were also these monsters: http://www.legitreviews.com/ttgi-tt-600k04-60 … -atxbtx-psu_164

These are "FireFlower" brand power supplies, which is a division of FSP Group, the high end OEM server power supply company that produces high-wattage power supplies for dell and HP servers designed for 100% load 24-7 operation @ 100% duty cycle. The TTGI brand was their consumer division selling exotic consumer power supplies. However this later "600 watt" model, was the beginning of the "modular +12v" era, when modular consumer power supplies with decent +12v started appearing, but some systems still needed heavy +5v as well.

The "last of the great non-modular units" was perhaps the SuperFlower/TTGI TT-550SS with a whole 50 amps on the +5v rail. Not modular at all, and was this one: http://www.overclockers.com/super-flowerttgi- … s-power-supply/

They're pretty rare and hard to find (either one) today, but I do have a TTGI TT-450SS in my AthlonXP (Even though it has a P4 plug on the motherboard) machine that has 43 amps on +5v and I'm using it for that machine It's my one I posted on here, that gigabyte board with the 3200+ Barton-400 chip in it, and this TTGI 450 watt one has it stable at 2500 mhz something.

Occasionally these TTGI units pop up on ebay, usually in the 400-450 watt range, I managed to score mine for $20 flat after shipping. People are selling these low because of the low +12v side, so they're not usable for "modern" systems.

Also some of you may be more familiar with SuperFlower's modern-day name when they run the FirePower brand of power supplies. The company bought out PC Power & Cooling a couple years ago, and changed the entire PCP&C line: it was re-branded to FirePower.

EDIT: My TTGI is using thick 16-AWG wires for both the ATX plug, and for all of the molex and sata plugs, stranded-copper in the wires and actually uses copper connectors inside the molex plugs and atx plug too. They're pretty nice units if you can find one and get your paws on it.

I bought this seemingly normal dvd drive off ebay. I had a bonus of free shipping as well! ( ebay coupon)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/361340296481

hint: its well worth taking a good 2nd look at it.

^ the acard in the back is worth multiple times the auction 😁 good catch!

luckybob wrote:

I bought this seemingly normal dvd drive off ebay. I had a bonus of free shipping as well! ( ebay coupon)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/361340296481

hint: its well worth taking a good 2nd look at it.

Nice steal. 🤣 That Acard SCSI conversion kit by itself will cost 100+ USD at a minimum, even 200+ is not rare. I had the same luck a few years back. Grabbed one just like it (a converted DVD multi writer) but for 60 USD, not 10 USD like yours.

Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Hint: You probably already know it but this floppy power connector is not optional. You need to connect both molex (powers the drive) and floppy (powers the card) connectors.

I felt that I diddnt have enough video cards so I bought some more... Im totally not hording video cards... 😜

Upper left: Radeon 7000 64MB DDR (I would guess it has 64 bit memory bus)
Upper right: TNT2 M64 😒
Middle left: MSI MS-8851 GF3 ti200 64MB (I have a few of these, nice cards)
Middle right: AOpen GF3 ti500 64MB 😈
Lower left: PNY PCI GF FX5200 128MB
Lower right: Hercules 3D Prophet FDX Radeon 8500 LE 64MB

I also bought this Tyan S1834D motherboard with two PIII 733. It has alot of leaking caps but the board works.

The 5 AGP cards were ~10 euro together, I mostly bought them for the GF3 cards. The PCI FX5200 were ~10 euro alone but I could not resist after reading the discussion about the best PCI card for a really fast PIII system. The Tyan board with CPUs were ~6 euro and I think it was a steal even with all the bad caps. Everything is from the same seller in Sweden so the shipping was cheap as chips.

Skyscraper wrote:

Everything is from the same seller in Sweden so the shipping was cheap as chips.

Where do you find all these things online in Sweden?
Are the sellers the same kind of people as those on "DBA", wich only ship's nationally?
Seems like most stuff are gone here in Denmark. 🙁

Would really love to expand to other parts of the net, in order to search and find other stuff.

luckybob wrote:

I bought this seemingly normal dvd drive off ebay. I had a bonus of free shipping as well! ( ebay coupon)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/361340296481

hint: its well worth taking a good 2nd look at it.

Did you try burning with it? I recall there being caviats in the ACARD literature about needing to use either special ACARD burning software, or a special ACARD SCSI card for burning to work reliably. The ACARD 7722's can be had for about $10 new if you know where to look. I've been doing some hacking to these units, but ran out of time.

feipoa wrote:

luckybob wrote:

I bought this seemingly normal dvd drive off ebay. I had a bonus of free shipping as well! ( ebay coupon)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/361340296481

hint: its well worth taking a good 2nd look at it.

Did you try burning with it? I recall there being caviats in the ACARD literature about needing to use either special ACARD burning software, or a special ACARD SCSI card for burning to work reliably. The ACARD 7722's can be had for about $10 new if you know where to look. I've been doing some hacking to these units, but ran out of time.

havent gotten it yet. honestly I'm just going to toss the dvd drive. I just wanted the scsi > ide adapter. 🤣 If i don't use it with a hard drive, I might just take my IDE zip 250 drive and make it scsi. or my LS-120 drive.... so many options!

also, here are some more!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/351341019699 $30 & free shipping

Are there reports of it working with a zip drive? I know the 7722 doesn't work with a hard drive, which is why I am hacking it.

I picked up an ASUS CUBX-E with 2 ISA slots for a fair price today. I just can't resist.

feipoa wrote:

Are there reports of it working with a zip drive? I know the 7722 doesn't work with a hard drive, which is why I am hacking it.

I guess I'm just going to test it and find out, eh? 🤣

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Skyscraper wrote:

Everything is from the same seller in Sweden so the shipping was cheap as chips.

Where do you find all these things online in Sweden?
Are the sellers the same kind of people as those on "DBA", wich only ship's nationally?
Seems like most stuff are gone here in Denmark. 🙁

Would really love to expand to other parts of the net, in order to search and find other stuff.

In Sweden we have Tradera.com and Blocket.se

Tradera is the Swedish Ebay but 99.9% of the sellers only ship within Sweden. Ebay tried to get people to stop using Tradera and use Ebay instead but it diddnt work so they bought Tradera.

Tradera is a shit company though so I often do the buissness directly with the sellers. When it comes to Tradera you really need to beware of scams as they are very slow when it comes to deleting scamming accounts.

Skyscraper wrote:

In Sweden we have Tradera.com and Blocket.se

Tradera is the Swedish Ebay but 99.9% of the sellers only ship within Sweden. Ebay tried to get people to stop using Tradera and use Ebay instead but it diddnt work so they bought Tradera.

Tradera is a shit company though so I often do the buissness directly with the sellers. When it comes to Tradera you really need to beware of scams as they are very slow when it comes to deleting scamming accounts.

Ahhh. The same story on Tradera, as DBA in Denmark. They could not get people to use Ebay, so they bought the whole thing.
Have been searching those places, and nothing retro came up. Still a couple of old ISA-Cards for sale in DK at the moment.
On the other hand. I don't really need a Jazz16 ISA sound card. Need to find someone who are willing to swap hardware.

I fear that this is the only way, I can get my computers complete as I like to have them.