K1n9_Duk3 wrote:

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cyclone3d wrote:

The 3000 only came in AGP as far as I know.

I beg to differ:

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Edit: This Voodoo 3 3000 PCI does indeed have a bigger heatsink than the one shown in Baoran's post. (About twice the size.)

Oooh, nice. Don't think I have ever seen one before.

cyclone3d wrote:

K1n9_Duk3 wrote:

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cyclone3d wrote:

The 3000 only came in AGP as far as I know.

I beg to differ:

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Edit: This Voodoo 3 3000 PCI does indeed have a bigger heatsink than the one shown in Baoran's post. (About twice the size.)

Oooh, nice. Don't think I have ever seen one before.

By the way, it's officially been right here in wikipedia for years. Voodoo3 1000's come in AGP & PCI, so do the 2000's, and 3000's also. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo3#Models

For a good overview on 3dfx cards I can recommend these websites: http://thedodgegarage.com/3dfx and http://tdfx.de

Since 2000 and 3000 have the same model number, is 3000 just overclocked 2000 with better cooling?
I'm thinking about getting a 40mm fan and strapping the 40mm fan on the heatsink with zip ties even if not overclocking. The 50mm fans that I have seem to be bit too big for it.

I bought a small batch of retro hardware from a local seller (new-old VIA Socket 370 mainboard, 440LX Slot 1 mianboard, slotket, PIII 700, SB16 CT2980, 12MB STB Voodoo 2, all for $30). He offered a bunch more stuff for grabs that I didn't really need so I turned down.

Well, he mailed them to me to get rid of them anyway (apparently he would dump them, so it's essentially a dumpster find). Regardless, I ended up with the following for free:

Pretty happy about it. I'll probably sell off one of the CT2980s, I don't need two (I already have 2 other SB16s too..)

Ok, i'm going to continue stretching the topic of this thread... I just picked this lot up:

Final Fantasy bonanza. 😀
They are all complete and in nice condition! Except the PC discs, which are a bit scratchy.
Pretty happy about FFIX, I've been looking on and off for a copy. Although I'm not a fan of platinum editions, I'm not complaining.

So my "trash room" is pretty magic; I keep and also give away lots of stuff I find, but pretty often I pass stuff up because I don't have the room etc.
Hence, here's an idea: if there are any vogoners in Stockholm, Sweden that are interested in occational free stuff, hit me up with a PM and I'll let you know whenever I come by neat stuff that I have no use for. Pick-up only, though.

stoof wrote:

Ok, i'm going to continue stretching the topic of this thread...

There's a thread for "Just bought these old games" if I remember correctly, dunno where it is tho. I guess you didn't buy this tho...

Stiletto wrote:

stoof wrote:

Ok, i'm going to continue stretching the topic of this thread...

There's a thread for "Just bought these old games" if I remember correctly, dunno where it is tho. I guess you didn't buy this tho...

You are right on both accounts. I just read the topic with emphasis on "AKA the Dumpster find thread."
Just slap me around a bit with a large trout, and I'll keep it strictly hardware. 😉

Found this old Super Socket 7 rig

Specs:
AMD K6-2 500/AFX
256 MB RAM
BCM VP1543 motherboard (working, but needs recap)
nVidia TNT2 M64
Realtek RTL8139 Ethernet card
Creative Soundblaster PCI128 CT4810
PCI Winmodem
HDD missing
250 watt PSU (dead)

Carlos S. M. wrote:

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Found this old Super Socket 7 rig

Specs:
AMD K6-2 500/AFX
256 MB RAM
BCM VP1543 motherboard (working, but needs recap)
nVidia TNT2 M64
Realtek RTL8139 Ethernet card
Creative Soundblaster PCI128 CT4810
PCI Winmodem
HDD missing
250 watt PSU (dead)

Cool looking case. If it were me i'd paint it. Dark grey on the bottom and purple on top. Make it look like an SGI system.

Not really a dumpster find, per se, but I'm pulling some decommissioned servers out of a data centre... some older Xeons, and even a few Athlon X2 machines. No big deal. But, I open up one of the Athlon X2 machines, and what do I find? An ATI Rage II 4MB PCI video card from 1998. Like, wtf? I don't have a machine that would benefit from me putting it in or replacing something I already have, but wow. Made my day.

How does the ATI Rage II stand up anyway? Comparable to Voodoo 1 or 2...?

Well the Rage II would be essentially early DirectX only, aside from a couple of ATI CIF compatible games.

Edit: apparently Photobucket is being a butt. You can view all the photos that go with this post --> here <-- for now.

It’s waste disposal time on my campus and that means there’s quality goods to be had. Now granted, this is a university office so most of what gets tossed is pretty boring. Corporate-grade Dell workstations, dead LCD monitors, etc. However sometimes you get lucky. Last year I scored a fully-kitted out Tandy TRS-80 model 100 with a ton of accessories. The year before that, two loaded G5 towers.

This time around -

First up: a pair of laptops! These were right at the top of the pile & I also left them for several days to see if anyone else was going to grab them. No one did, so mine.

The Thinkpad is kind of neat, it’s a Celeron 433 with 64MB of RAM, an ATI Rage Mobility and ESS sound chip (not sure if it’s one of the DOS-compatible ones yet.) Big, bright TFT screen. Unfortunately it got a bit butchered by whoever took the hard drive out, they went at it HARD trying to find it rather than taking 10 seconds to look up which two screws to undo to get it out. They even pulled the front panel LCD/play/volume controls off (why?) and cut the ribbon cable (WHY??) It is complete though, except for the HDD caddy, and is otherwise really clean, so I’m thinking I’ll try to restore this one.

The Dell on the right is a score; it’s a Pentium-M @ 1.5 GHz with 768MB of RAM and a full complement of serial & parallel ports (and a dock connector; I have at least two docks that will work with this already.) More importantly it has a fantastic crisp 1400x1050 display and a 64MB (dedicated!) Radeon 9000 chip to drive it. Absolutely nothing wrong with it, even still had the HDD (wiped.) Came with three batteries, at least one of which works well enough to get through an ENTIRE Bodhi Linux install from DVD, although it got kind of hot while charging.

I’m just gonna keep this one at my office and use it for work when I need to get away from the desk. 1400x1050 is a great resolution on such a compact laptop, it’s a huge amount of screen real-estate and feels liberating to work in when you’re used to 1280x800.

I also grabbed this early HDD-based MP3 player (no charger unfortunately) and a USB TV tuner stick (good for old consoles using RF.) The MP3 player is SOLID, all metal construction & really high-quality materials. It feels like a high-end minidisc walkman rather than some cheap plasticky thing. Interested to get that one working.

Digging deeper into the boxes, underneath all the PS/2 keyboards & dead wired routers is when the real fun stuff started to emerge. Components!

First up is this dirty-but-complete 440BX board which has 4 IDE ports for some reason (8 devices!) Looked fine aside from the dust bunnies, no bulging caps or anything. Get.


Came with a PIII/700 under that grime-cake heat sink.

A few PCI Sound Blasters that I don’t really need, another video capture card, a PCIe Radeon HD3850 (might be fun to compare to my AGP one) and a GeForce 4 Ti4600 with a magnificent hack-job of an aftermarket cooler install.

Seriously, when you have to use a piece of cardboard and twist-ties to keep something high-tech going and you know it’s hacky but damn it, you’re gonna do it anyway because you KNOW you can FIX it that way, I applaud you.

Also found one of those USB->DVI display extender things and a dirty but OK-looking 600MHz Cyrix III.

You know the Cyrix is gonna end up in that BX board, because P3s are boring.

And then there’s this absolutely disgustingly filthy Kinesis Classic key…board…thing. I had to look this up. I don’t know if it’s sought-after or rare enough to warrant restoring, but I might give it a go anyway. It does seem to work (and yes, I did type on it with my bare hands, haha.) These actually have Cherry MX switches in them so I’m sure some keyboard snob out there thinks it’s the cat’s meow. Or the dog’s bollocks. Or whatever.

It’s sadly not a DataHands DH200 but it’s the closest I’m likely to find in a random local junk pile, so there’s that. 😜

All in all, a great haul! I’m sure more stuff is going to get put out before they recycle the lot, but I’ve got enough to play with for now. The Dell Inspiron will be immediately useful & stuff like the BX board and video cards are always nice to have around for spares. It took a bit of digging to get everything interesting out and not leave a mess, but it was worth the effort.

...there was also half a Quake III cookie tin. For some reason. I wish the other half had been there.

Edit: apparently Photobucket is being a butt. You can view all the photos that go with this post --> here <-- for now.

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Oh yeah, I forgot. There was also this.

WELL THEN. At least one of you noticed something sneaky I put in the pic of the Core 2 Quad I bought on the same day. Here it is. Yes, it’s a real goddamn Gravis Ultrasound MAX. It was buried in a random box of junk being thrown away. In an office. In an office where the oldest PCs still lying around are Pentium 4s & Core 2 Duos. I don’t even. I DON’T even.

I pretty much made this noise when I found it.

It’s even been expanded to 1MB. Haven’t tested it yet but it looks fine. I’m really hoping it works. This is actually my first GF1-based card ever, I’ve had a bunch of PnPs though. This will go in my 386 alongside the ATI Stereo FX/CD in there for ultimate red-PCB ‘90s sound goodness. I really need to do a thread on that thing.

Speaking of red PCBs… I always found Gravis’s reds to be exceptionally pretty. There’s something about the design & deep cherry color of these that is just stunning to me. Same goes for the GUS PnP. I left this pic huge so you can click through and bask in it. 😜

xjas wrote:

a real goddamn Gravis Ultrasound MAX.

Well holy hell, that's a fine dumpster find! And here I am thinking I find good stuff. 😀

That Thinkpad is interesting/weird. I don't think I've ever seen that model. ("i seres"? Made by Acer apparently.)
Oh, and the heatsink for the s370 looks like a good one, copper base with aluminium fins.

Wow...you made the 1st price...GUS in the dumpster...congratulations!!! Incredible...

Ether someone died or really pissed off there girlfriend/wife. That or it's all dead or not working right. I mean that some real money there.

Saved all this from being scrapped yesterday. 😁

So far neither mac is in working order, the Classic is going to need more work (blows fuses, seems like bad analogue board) than the Classic II so I've pulled the battery and shelved it for another day. The Classic II displays lines and turns on which gives me hope that it's just a problem of bad caps on the logic board. Probably going to have both the boards recapped just for kicks but I'll bet the Classic II will live again. 😁

King_Corduroy wrote:

Saved all this from being scrapped yesterday. :D […]
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Saved all this from being scrapped yesterday. 😁

So far neither mac is in working order, the Classic is going to need more work (blows fuses, seems like bad analogue board) than the Classic II so I've pulled the battery and shelved it for another day. The Classic II displays lines and turns on which gives me hope that it's just a problem of bad caps on the logic board. Probably going to have both the boards recapped just for kicks but I'll bet the Classic II will live again. 😁

Just do a mystic upgrade and have a sweet classic.

Sadly I think you can only do that with a Colour Classic. I'm probably wrong though I've still a lot to learn about macs. 🤣

King_Corduroy wrote:

Sadly I think you can only do that with a Colour Classic. I'm probably wrong though I've still a lot to learn about macs. 🤣

Yup, my mistake. For some reason I mixed up the two. The color classic and mystic upgrade are on my mind right now since i'm restoring an LC 575.