Hey nice going!

My bets are with the Pentium-133 made by AMD, the wabbajack is already mine!

Perhaps it's some sort of cpu upgrade based on a amd 5x86-133. That maybe explains the initial statement that it's a 486, but also the fact that the name resembles a pentium.

That indeed seems most likely. A lot of the 5x86-based upgrades were advertised as 'Pentium-level performance' or other similar phrases to that effect, so it would be completely reasonable that somebody could get mixed up on the specifics and call it an AMD Pentium 133.

Yup definitely a AMD 5x86 133mhz, I am going to guess with 32mb of Ram, and a 648MB hard drive

Hmm I dunno, upgrading from 100 to 133 Mhz wouldn't make much sense. In my experience Pentium's are heaps more common than socket 3 stuff, and they're often housed in a 486-era case - obviously an upgrade at some point.

It'll be a Pentium with a boring PCI S3 vga card 😀

badmofo wrote:

Hmm I dunno, upgrading from 100 to 133 Mhz wouldn't make much sense. In my experience Pentium's are heaps more common than socket 3 stuff, and they're often housed in a 486-era case - obviously an upgrade at some point.

It'll be a Pentium with a boring PCI S3 vga card 😀

My thoughts exactly as well.

It's an AMD 5x86-133ADZ running at 150MHz!

• It seems that it does have 32 Mb of EDO RAM, but I'm not sure yet. I'm at my father's so i don't have any monitor to turn the thing on and see.
• S3 Trio32 (probably 2 Mb, with memory extension chips installed)
• Weird GPU cooling device (socket 3 cooler mounted on a stripped ISA I/O controller board to move air to the S3. A very simple and curious thingy!
• 256Kb cache in 512K cache sticks (also very uncommon)
• A tiny PCI motherboard with custom voltage regulator cooler
• Unidentified Conner HDD, which is very uncommon for Russia. I did not extract it from the bay, I'm a lazy man 😀
• ASUS 50x CD drive
• 3.5 floppy, of course
• AT case with 200W PSU and a frequency screen
• Original documentation for mobo and 2d card, including instructions to run it with AutoCAD
• 3-button Genius mouse and DIN-5 Mitsumi keyboard in perfect condition (Clicky!!!) + plactic cap for keyboard
• several floppies with drivers and stuff
• Brand-new power, IDE and FDD cables
• KEYS FOR KEYLOCK!!!

When I received the whole package, I felt like a kid with a luxurious new toy! The mouse and keyboard were shining and as I opened the case, there was barely any dust! The cables are carefully strapped together, all the backplanes are in place, except for the one with the cooling device.

The previous owner, as I found out from the conversation, was a brilliant mix of a good engineer and a caring woman. Not only did she manage to make her system run cooler, she also payed attention to things men usually don't think about. With every screw in it's position, no cables "just hanging", almost no dust inside and all the manuals still kept, I think, I have no choice but to admit this is the best condition of a PC I ever got and will ever get.

Since I don't know RAM and HDD size yet, we'll have to wait until Friday for the Wabbajack 😀

I hope for you it's a Pentium Overdrive 133 for Socket 4 😁

Nah, the CPU is labled "5x86-133ADZ" 😀 Never wanted a POD anyway 😀

Great. Nice find. I wish I could find a key for a keylock. So far I've been able to get two sets, but they're larger so they won't fit. And on my 286 pc, whose motherboard has a 5 pin header for a front keyboard connector, I replaced the keylock with a ps/2 connector...

Congratulations she sounds beautiful , how about some pictures for us to enjoy,that cooling design sounds very interesting?

Markk wrote:

Great. Nice find. I wish I could find a key for a keylock. So far I've been able to get two sets, but they're larger so they won't fit. And on my 286 pc, whose motherboard has a 5 pin header for a front keyboard connector, I replaced the keylock with a ps/2 connector...

You can buy a whole new mechanism and key from electronic shop, they still use those in things like alarms...

So here are the pictures, my new 5 megapixel Nokia shoots a little better than my old 1.2 megapixel Motorola, but Motorola was ten times more brutal 😀

From inside the case (after I tossed around some wires to get to the CPU and see what cache modules were installed):

CPU after cleaning thermal paste (I am going to apply new anyway):

S3 Trio32 videocard with external cooling:

Mouse, keyboard, cables:

Case:

Keys!!!

Nice case... damn..

That old thermal grease is nasty, get some thermal grease remover from the hardware shop if they have it (it's basically citric acid I think). Otherwise yeah great case and I definitely remember those keys from back in the day 😀

Very nice indeed, thats a very interesting way to re-purpose a IDE controller.

But all in all a very nice system that any retro game collector can be proud of 😀

It's beautiful!
Please let us know when you can test it: Is the LED working? Does it display 3 numbers? Does the turbo button works?

Damn, you actually got the keys. I got a couple AT cases with keyholes but all the keys are missing 🤣

That old thermal grease is nasty, get some thermal grease remover from the hardware shop if they have it (it's basically citric acid I think).

...or just use alcohol, which you probably already have and works just fine.