I had flat space, the temptation was too great, made a beeline for a small stack of boxes which I had not been able to get into for years....
It's weird, I was standing there going, "What? What? What?" David Tennant as the Doctor style as I pulled out some stuff I didn't recognise, mingled with one or two things I've been looking for.
You'll spot in the pics, a Voodoo 3 2000, don't think it's the one I bought new, which I ran hard and it browned the board around regs etc, think I tried this one and it only did the first notch above stock speed. It's great to find it, but also a little dissappointing as I thought I had a "voodoo cache" of several boards together, and I now think they are a bit scattered, and not sure I'll find an 8MB V2 with them like I thought. Then in the same pic as that is a GF4 4600, which needs RAM reflowed or replaced and probably a few caps. Was driving me crazy how I couldn't find my "crappy" basic PCI gfx, well there they all are. The Virge looks like one of the Virgeiest ones that might be interesting to mess with in a socket 5 or so. Then also I knew I wasn't crazy... well, not all that crazy... well a specific kind of crazy... and did have a matrox mistake, there it is in the other pic, along with some randoms, a "real" network card, though DEC would argue since they did all the ethernet heavy lifting. That VGA wonder looks a bit sad though, that might have been a scrap bin rescue from somewhere, and the EGA seems to be a little tweaked. I have a better condition one of both I think. I dyslexified the GL5446 and thought I had a 5464 laguna for a couple of mins. Gotta get one of those more basic ones into my poor old socket 4 box, it doesn't deserve a 5430... well nothing does really.
Now motherboards a plenty also turned up, my main stash of T2P4s and some trashy looking socket 7s, but what I'm showing pics of were what surprised me most. A DEC LPXish board, huh, don't know where that came from. Then I hope the varta hasn't eaten too much of that neat single VB slot board, you see that AMD 386 DX40 on there? That might be fun to play with with VLB gfx and ample cache... also will have a 387 it can borrow. Then wow, didn't realise I had that PCI 486 board or a 386 motherboard wanting a CPU, I passed over a 386 a few months back, thinking I didn't have a hole for one. I maybe vaguely remember looking into this board years back and it's apparent absence of cache maybe didn't encourage me to bother much with it.
edit: now I'm confused, that's a V3 3000 isn't it? Only thought I have PCI 2000s and an AGP 3000, weird.
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.