oh no

I can't imagine the response if they came out with a Voodoo 5500 PCI or an Alaris Cougar II clock.

douglar wrote on 2020-01-29, 03:41:

I can't imagine the response if they came out with a Voodoo 5500 PCI or an Alaris Cougar II clock.

That's why they're all made with cheap garbage parts, there's no value proposition otherwise.

The socket 370 CPU in the motherboard in the last picture looks like it says 1100Mhz with a 100Mhz FSB... I saw it and did a double take... then I looked more closely and saw that it was a celeron, not a Pentium 3. heh heh... almost! 😁

By the way, this doesn't bother me nearly as much as the people who just snap boards in half or cut off the "gold fingers". I've seen some horrendous carnage over the past few years. I've saved many rare cards from ending up like that. I'm still somewhat scarred by the Ensoniq Soundscape S-2000 (the one with all the headers and the 2MB ROM, not the 1MB OEM model) that I saw a year or so ago with the entire ISA connector sawed off. Or the people who sell sandwich baggies full of "chips" for scrap and you can see at least a few 3dfx chips in there... *shudder*

I'm totally okay with turning stuff that people have no use for into art... it's certainly more environmentally friendly than using noxious chemicals to melt it down for 3 cents worth of precious metals. There's very little likelihood that most PCI express cards will ever be sought after as collectibles unless they represent something specific (like, the earliest ones that may still work in older operating systems or games... or perhaps the last ones that supported VGA or Windows XP), so in my opinion, those are fair game.

wow ! hopefully they non-working cards before the transformation.

Ozzuneoj wrote on 2020-01-29, 04:14:

The socket 370 CPU in the motherboard in the last picture looks like it says 1100Mhz with a 100Mhz FSB... I saw it and did a double take... then I looked more closely and saw that it was a celeron, not a Pentium 3. heh heh... almost! 😁

It's a 1Hz now.
At least that one actually has face numbers, the others are just dumb. "Oh look at the time, it's headphone port past linear regulator already, I'm going to be late!"

jmarsh wrote on 2020-01-29, 04:31:

At least that one actually has face numbers, the others are just dumb. "Oh look at the time, it's headphone port past linear regulator already, I'm going to be late!"

Why? You can read an analogue clock without digits pretty easily.

jmarsh wrote on 2020-01-29, 04:31:

At least that one actually has face numbers, the others are just dumb. "Oh look at the time, it's headphone port past linear regulator already, I'm going to be late!"

This. Really annoying to check the time when you should only need a quick glance. Besides, they all look terrible.

SquallStrife wrote on 2020-01-29, 04:53:

jmarsh wrote on 2020-01-29, 04:31:

At least that one actually has face numbers, the others are just dumb. "Oh look at the time, it's headphone port past linear regulator already, I'm going to be late!"

Why? You can read an analogue clock without digits pretty easily.

nowadays a lot of people can't read analogue clocks at all anymore x3

Horun wrote on 2020-01-29, 04:27:

wow ! hopefully they non-working cards before the transformation.

As if they would even bothered to check. Monsters such as these have destroyed rare and even prototype console cartridges to make stuff that wouldn't cut the muster in grade school arts & crafts. It's sickening. I'm sure everyone has seen the Cray system bodged into a "Cray-dle, hurr hurr", and the Xbox 360 developer system that was gutted, wrecked, wiped, and turned into a garbage (even for the time) "gamer rig". Were I still able, I would weep.

I wonder what the clock speed of them is?...!

I like the sound blaster clock.. Too bad there's no SB16 PnP available! 😆

Edit:

FazzaGBR wrote on 2020-01-29, 15:47:

I wonder what the clock speed of them is?...!

YMMD! 🤣