c0keb0ttle wrote:

Trust is just a company that imports from Chinese suppliers and puts their own brand name on the stuff. Very common practice, and usually they at least have some sort of quality control. Deltaco is another one, here in Sweden.

I see the Trust brand quite often in electronics stores, but a bit less nowadays because many stores actually imports products on their own and sets their own special brand names on the generic products.

This seems like the equivalent of my Shark branded "600 watt" PSU I had until it literally melted the end of the cord that plugs into the PSU. I wasn't even running it at load, I think i had 400-ish watts on it MAYBE (An E8400, an 8800GTX, a couple of hard drives and a soundcard). Turned out to be a rebranded 400 watt. I'm surprised it booted at all.

gdjacobs wrote:

Just to be clear, I have seen worse. At least it has filters on the output!

Still, anemic input filtering, individual diodes instead of a FWR bridge, small primary transformer. These are all bad signs.

+1. Input is crappy but the board is quite well populated. Secondary filtering is quite ok and not cramped.

Just found an Optiplex 755 at the recycling facility. Q6600, 2GB of PC2-5300, 3.5" floppy drive, DVDRW. All it needs is a hard drive and the fan bracket w/ the cooling fan. It POSTS fine. I may end up upgrading it to 8GB of RAM and throw in an SSD later on down the road.

OK, guys and gals. Had a nice roadside find today. Unfortunately most of it was junk, but I did keep various parts.

Dell Dimension 4100 (Pentium III 1GHz). Salvaged the Turtle Beach sound card, CPU and heatsink.
Dell Dimension XPS 4100 P133C. Salvaged the front bezel, motherboard, RAM, CPU, and Dell cache card.
Unknown Compaq with Pentium II unknown speed. Early era PII and 440FX chipset; uses 72pin memory. Salvaged only the Pentium II and the cool blower fan.
Unknown Compaq tower with an Intel 486DX2 66, 5.25" Teac floppy, and Creative Labs SB-16 and SB CD-ROM were tossed (all rusty). Saved the memory and CPU.
Generic system with Pentium 4 2.53GHz / 512K / 533. Board and chip only - both tossed (very bad condition).

Annnnnd...the gem of the bunch:
Antec case with an Asus CUV4X-?

motherboard covered in snow. Dual socket 370 board with two PIII-S 1266 / 512 / 133, and 1GB of PC133 (2x512MB) RAM with heatspreaders. Scrapped only the case and kept the board. I'll soak it in water and alcohol to clean it off. Hopefully it's still good. The serial port headers are a bit rusty, but not too bad.

More pictures...

the dual CPU asus motherboard is an ASUS CUV4X-D which is a dual CPU mobo based on the VIA 694XDP, it doesn't officially support tualatin, so it came with adapters, you are very lucky since these adapters are very rare

Nice S3 Vision 968 card there

Nice haul, Brickpad! Some pretty amazing stuff in there. It was all together? Like same person dumped it all?

King_Corduroy wrote:

Found these guys last week! Probably not going to keep the HP Pavillion but man that Commodore monitor is MINE FOREVER. lol […]
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Found these guys last week! Probably not going to keep the HP Pavillion but man that Commodore monitor is MINE FOREVER. 🤣

For some reason I really love the style of these low end crap computers marketed to those without much money, you gonna sell that? It's even in box with original monitor 🤣 🤣

clueless1 wrote:

Nice haul, Brickpad! Some pretty amazing stuff in there. It was all together? Like same person dumped it all?

Yeah, I was driving down the street and passed by a house with all of them sitting at the end of the driveway. I wasn't sure if they were computers at first, so I turned around and hauled butt before the garbage truck made its way over. Glad I did! I'm really hoping that dual socket370 board works. I'm going to soak it really good in soap and water. 😀

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I just realized that it also has AGP Pro, and supports up to 4GB of PC-133!

ASUS had a thing for supporting AGP Pro pretty much across their whole product line for a while. They also supported ECC RAM whenever possible.

Carlos S. M. wrote:

the dual CPU asus motherboard is an ASUS CUV4X-D which is a dual CPU mobo based on the VIA 694XDP, it doesn't officially support tualatin, so it came with adapters, you are very lucky since these adapters are very rare

Nice S3 Vision 968 card there

I own those exact motherboard and videocard - the ASUS CUV4X-D is a nice mobo, I'm currently using it in my Windows 2k rig based on dual Pentium III 800EB. I've to test yet that Vision 968 VGA card, pretty much larger than all other S3 cards I have.

Brickpad wrote:

OK, guys and gals. Had a nice roadside find today. Unfortunately most of it was junk, but I did keep various parts. Annnnnd...th […]
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OK, guys and gals. Had a nice roadside find today. Unfortunately most of it was junk, but I did keep various parts.
Annnnnd...the gem of the bunch:
Antec case with an Asus CUV4X-?

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The adapter looks like a linlin adapter, it's a real treasure! I happen to have one boxed and iirc it came with a manual. If you happen to need it (a copy of the manual that is 😜) feel free to ask and I'll go find it for you 😀

Picked up this little beauty from work, which was sitting in a display cabinet and was due to be chucked. EISA / VLB combo, well documented, cfg files apparently downloadable, and even came with an EISA SCSI controller. ISA for sound, VLB for graphics, add some cache and a DX2-66 and this should make a very tidy little DOS gaming setup.

If it works...

Were the frack is the cmos battery?

See that Dallas block? It's an RTC, realtime clock module. Those were used commonly on older boards.

Had this come back from a customer site today. You can't tell from the picture, but I really cannot emphasize enough how dusty and dirty the inside of this machine is. You can kind of see it on the last PCI slot... it's just coated in this black crap. No idea where the customer had it for it to be so disgusting.

Anyway, its an Intel board with a Pentium 4 and 4 x 512MB of RAM... not quite sure the exact model of the CPU, as it won't boot. Pretty sure it's a bad power supply, so should be able to get it in working order.

RJDog wrote:

Had this come back from a customer site today. You can't tell from the picture, but I really cannot emphasize enough how dusty and dirty the inside of this machine is. You can kind of see it on the last PCI slot... it's just coated in this black crap. No idea where the customer had it for it to be so disgusting.

Anyway, its an Intel board with a Pentium 4 and 4 x 512MB of RAM... not quite sure the exact model of the CPU, as it won't boot. Pretty sure it's a bad power supply, so should be able to get it in working order.

board looks like an Intel D865GBF since it seems to have onboard video, is based on the Intel 865G, it can also be an Intel D865PERC (Intel 865PE) in the case the board has no onboard video and the original video card was removed

RJDog wrote:

not quite sure the exact model of the CPU

Socket 478, 1.8Ghz Pentium 4 Northwood. Score!

Carlos S. M. wrote:

board looks like an Intel D865GBF since it seems to have onboard video

That is precisely what it is... D865GBF. Seems like a nice board.

Yeah, Intel boards are known for begin quality and rocksolid stable, since is an i865 based mobo, it does support all socket 478 P4s, even HT models, depending of your mobo revision, it can support Prescott and gallatin P4 EE in later revisions, older are limited to Northwood models (max CPU begin the P4 3.4C Ghz Northwood HT SL793 in the case it doesn't support Prescott nor Gallatin)

oeuvre wrote:

See that Dallas block? It's an RTC, realtime clock module. Those were used commonly on older boards.

So the batt is inside of it?