I see a sound card with a memory module in a SIMM slot. Usually they would be worth something.

I think it depends on what you are looking for. Video cards that have only one black colored vga interface have a chance to be something usable in retro systems and same with sound cards that don't have colored connectors. The sound card with colored connectors and black board reminds me of sound blaster live, but I can't be absolutely sure of that. I like treasure hunting, so I would probably buy them at that price.

What is the big black port next to VGA on some of those cards? My Matrox Millennium has one and I have no idea what it does.

Also one of the black connectors almost looks like it would only have 2 rows in the female connector, so might that be ega card? I can't be absolutely sure because of low resolution of the pictures, but it looked like that to me.

That is 100% guaranteed a good deal, a no brainer 😀 Sure, I see lots of probably not very valuable 15-20 year old graphics cards, but you can sell the rest and keep what you want anytime.

I feel like showing this to my partner and giving her anxiety. 😁

I can see PCI-X SCSI controller in there, possibly Adaptec 29160.

Woolie Wool wrote:

What is the big black port next to VGA on some of those cards? My Matrox Millennium has one and I have no idea what it does.

It's the port for a breakout box, for video capture, MPEG decoding or TV tuner. You need a module installed on the card (MediaXL MPEG or TV) and dongle to make use of it.

Probably mostly junk, but it will be fun to find out.

Take all the blue ones (Hercules) at least. They're quality video cards

Woolie Wool wrote:

What is the big black port next to VGA on some of those cards? My Matrox Millennium has one and I have no idea what it does.

Baoran wrote:

Also one of the black connectors almost looks like it would only have 2 rows in the female connector, so might that be ega card? I can't be absolutely sure because of low resolution of the pictures, but it looked like that to me.

That black connector (on the VGA card in the middle between a SCSI card and a Firewire card) looks like the DB15 connector found on beige Macintoshes, I'm guessing either that video card was meant to be used in a Macintosh computer or that port might be for something else (like a breakout box as already mentioned). I know that some PCI ATI Rage video cards (for Macs) had both a VGA connector (for regular VGA monitors) and a DB15 connector for those older Apple monitors.

That sound card with the 72-pin RAM expansion slot is probably worth way more than the asking price for the whole lot.

If it were me, I would pick that lot up in a heartbeat.

I searched for this card but can't find anything, it has the SIMM slot taking nearly the full length of the card (which is quite small). The only sound cards I find on the net with expansion slots are much longer. I've offered 40€ to the seller for the lot + shipping costs, I'm waiting for his answer 😀

okenido wrote:

I searched for this card but can't find anything, it has the SIMM slot taking nearly the full length of the card (which is quite small). The only sound cards I find on the net with expansion slots are much longer. I've offered 40€ to the seller for the lot + shipping costs, I'm waiting for his answer 😀

Yeah, I haven't turned up anything either for that particular sound card. I am VERY interested to find out what it is exactly. Wish that sticky note was not laying on top of it.

I think I found it 😀

Seems to be a Guillemot Maxi Sound 64 Dynamic 3D

I don't know anything about this card. Doesn't seems very common

http://retronn.de/imports/hwgal/hw_maxi_sound … dynamic_3d.html

Ohhhhh, nice. That would be a very nice all-in-one DOS sound card and pretty sweet for Win9x as well.

Hope you get that lot of cards!

Yeah seems really nice ! I just hope they aren't damaged, they were really badly stored. I bought the lot, i'll tell you what I got 😀

Woolie Wool wrote:

What is the big black port next to VGA on some of those cards? My Matrox Millennium has one and I have no idea what it does.

These two display adapters are probably Matrox Millenium or Mystique. They have this black midi/joystick type connectors to be used together with their Rainbow Runner daughterboards for additional features like MPEG decoding, video capture, or TV. These daughterboards come with a breakout cable that connects to this port.

Well I received the box, and this pile of "crap" was really worth !! 🤣

Two Voodoo 5
A Voodoo Banshee
A radeon 9500
A radeon 9200se (with the nice gold MSI heatsink)
Several ATI Rage, geforce 2MX cards
A Matrox card with a daughterboard attached to it
A Sound blaster Live
A Guillemot sound card with ram expansion
A Korg daughterboard for sound card
A PCI riser (plugs into 1 pci slot to give 2 pci slot... does this works as standard or needs a specific mobo?)
Several PCI/USB/Firewire cards
A PCI card with 4 serial ports
A PCI card that seems specific for some industrial purpose, i don't know what it does
Some OEM sound cards, noname sloket and maybe some things im missing

All the stuff is covered with nasty dust, some of it seems shiny/metallic. I'll have to do a very deep cleaning job before I can check they're working properly.