Iris030380 wrote:

This 😁

i have one, why is it so important?

noshutdown wrote:

hello guyz my wanted list(many are not really difficult to find, just not happy with the price): […]
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hello guyz
my wanted list(many are not really difficult to find, just not happy with the price):

mainboards:
mvp3 boards with 2mb cache and 596b southbridge, preferably dfi k6xv3/66
ali5 boards with b1 southbridge(supporting udma66)
i have mostly given up the idea of assembling a 486 rig but if i run into a umc/sis pci 486 board in good condition...

cpu:
cyrix 6x86l, the slowest socket7 cpu as it can run at 1x clock.
idt winchip, slowest clock to clock in socket7, and with mmx support.
amd k6-3+450/500, needless to say the fastest socket7 cpu.
lga775 celeron-d engineer samples(unlocked multiplier).

video cards:
isa tsenglabs et4000 with 1mb(my friend gave me one but with only 512kb)
agp rendition v2200 with 8mb, from hercules or qdi(lenovo)
s3 savage3 sgram, from hercules or asus
ati rage fury(rage128gl) 100mhz clock version
ati rage fury pro(rage128pro) with active cooler version
tnt2ultra that can do agp4x(the gpu supports 4x but most cards are made to only support 2x)
and many nvidia reference cards

sound cards:
IBM music feature card is also on my list(price guaranteed to be insane)
roland scc-1a
creative ct3900, the "best" looooooooooong awe32 with yamaha opl synth and is non-pnp.

I got that k6xv3/66 and it can be a tad picky at times. Also fragile when it comes to the dimm slots. Has great voltage selection and is quick but not the greatest when it comes to memory bandwidth. Not all are 2mb but many are 512k and 1mb >.<

I got 640mb ram and a K6-3E installed on mine 😀

Not really an awesome piece of hardware but seems to be pretty rare nowadays, a FX5800 Ultra. I have seen a few vanilla FX5800 cards but not an Ultra for a long time.

Standard Def Steve wrote:

-MSI Master 266 board (dual PIII-S, up to 4GB of DDR, AGP 4X). I occasionally see them on eBay, but $150-200 is far more than I' […]
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-MSI Master 266 board (dual PIII-S, up to 4GB of DDR, AGP 4X). I occasionally see them on eBay, but $150-200 is far more than I'm willing to pay.

-An XFX GeForce 7950GT AGP for the Master 266.

-The ultimate BX system: P3-S at 1.58GHz/150FSB, 1GB of CL2 SDRAM, GeForce FX 5950 Ultra at 100MHz AGP (effectively AGP 3x), SB Audigy, GigE, 98SE/XP/7 triple boot, and a floppy drive.

-1GHz Orion Athlon

-I have no clue if such a board exists, but I'd love to play with an overclockable desktop board based on the i830 mobile chipset.

-A maxed out PowerMac G5 with two dual-core 2.5GHz processors, 16GB of DDR2, and a Radeon 5870. I have absolutely no interest in the Intel Macs or any of the G4 and earlier machines, but a completely maxed out G5 would be downright cool.

I don't think you're ever going to find a HD5870 that will work with a PowerMac G5. I'm pretty sure they are Intel only. The most modern video card you'll get for one of those is probably a nvidia 7800GTX.

This

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This

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Is it faster than this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlWnv4-H0W0

The Virginia Tech Powermac G5 cluster.

jmrydholm wrote:

EFI microprocessor controlled fuel system for my DeLorean - hey, it's old hardware

You may be able to fit the fuel injection module for the Renault Laguna V6 since they share the same engine, with the Renault being already fuel injected.

Forgot to mention, I'm still looking for a SiS Xabre 600 and a XGI Volari V8 Duo Ultra. Haven't seen either of those for donkey's years.

Does anyone remember seeing PCI-E SiS cards on Tiger Direct and Newegg back in 2008? There were a few but I can't find any even on amazon and eBay seams to not have any as well 🙁 Same for S3 😒

sliderider wrote:

Is it faster than this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlWnv4-H0W0

The Virginia Tech Powermac G5 cluster.

Who cares? I love the paint job!

(Not to mention the many Tesla K20X boards inside...)

Obsidian 100DB 😀

...The SGI is the ultimate workstation - a 4 CPU beast. I don't know about any other 4 CPU x86 workstation.

INTERGRAPH had quad x86 CPU beats way before the SGI visual workstations jumped in the x86 market. The most impressive was a 6x Pentium system (model ISMP66), apparently sold between 1994 to 1996, using Corollary's C-BUS2 chipset with either 100 or 133 MHz Intel Pentium CPU's, 1Gb max ram, and a custom version of Windows NT server with support up to 32 CPU's (instead of 4 as the retail version).

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My high school still had these in the 486 days. They made me drool back then, mostly due to the crazy slow refresh rates. I'm not making fun of your choice, just reminiscing.

I listed this in things you wish you still had thread, but I really want another Acros 386sx. This is kind of a look-alike since the Acros 100 had 5.25 slots and is a desktop case. Mine had an Acros monitor with .42 dot pitch and a 60Hz maximum refresh if I remember right. Ah memories..

These guys will always make me drool, even though i have 3 already, but not as good as this one.

The prommie will make a cyrix 5x86 not overheat to reach 150mhz.

Also older harddrives like these:

A-Trend ATC-6254M

This 440BX board has an onboard Voodoo3 2000 AGP. Supports up to 155mhz FSB.

AOpen AX4B 533 Tube Motherboard

Yes, that is a vacuum tube on the board.

ECS PF88 Extreme Hybrid

Motherboard can use either an AMD or Intel processor.

Hardware PORN topic 😁

Any quad Pentium PRO was on my wishlist but never had the money back in 2000 to buy one 🙁

All the EISA slots 😁 love them

I never ownt a Pentium Pro 🙁

I had 8088 286 386 486 pentium (also dual 233mmx) pentium2 (3x dual 266 300 and 333) celeron (dual 366@550 bp6) pentium 3 (also duals) en i had a quad xeon 700 machine 😁 But never a single Pentium Pro 🙁

Commodore Amiga 3000T for me... Never owned one and can never find one in good condition at a decent price 😒.