PcBytes wrote on 2024-10-31, 18:26:

Wes1262 wrote on 2024-10-31, 00:55:

Some vendors used "pro" and afaik "xt" too. But I only know Powercolor did for sure, because of this pic.

What I refer to is internal reference chipset/drivers level - up until 9600 and 9800, there was no XT model, and 9700 didn't receive one either, although that's because 9700 came a bit earlier than 9600 and 9800 IIRC.

I think it was more of a marketing thing on ATIs part, why bother with a 9700XT when you have a 9800XT and the 9600XT there isn't much room between them market wise to fit a 9700XT and anyone buying a 9700XT is just cannibalising sales of the 9800XT Flagship.

bearking wrote on 2024-10-31, 22:27:

Added to my collection:

AMD 5k86-P75 AMD-SSA/5-75ABR

And now find a SSA/5-90 (but leave the SSA/5-100 for me 😉)

ChrisK wrote on 2024-11-01, 18:02:

And now find a SSA/5-90 (but leave the SSA/5-100 for me 😉)

I'm actively collecting hw for the last 6 years and this is the fist SSA/5 I found in the local markets(online or flea markets). So, I guess it would be pretty hard to find another one like this... But hey, who knows... 😀

A nice addition to my Voodoo collection. A 12MB Voodoo 2, namely Gainward's Dragon 3000.

Got an old workstation in a couple of days ago. Paid 50$ for it.

The reason I bought it is because I've been looking for a DDR socket 370 board for a while, and the only 2 I've been able to get my hands on were DoA. This workstation is built around a MSI Master 266TD. The second CPU slot is of little interest since I only use retro-rigs for gaming and games of that era wouldn't know what to do with the second chip, but it's still a DDR socket 370 board.

Came with two Pentium III-S 1266 Tualatin chips, a radeon 7000 (a really cheap looking one, with very low clocks and a dinky little heatsink like the ones you find on Ati Rage GLs), no ram, a dead noname PSU, a couple of 3com nics, and a couple of Western Digital 40GB IDE disk drives setup in raid. To my suprise, everything but the PSU works. The socket for CPU2 was damaged in shipping. The (giant) copper socket A cooler got torn off and took part of the heatsink clips with it. I can still use some CPU coolers on it, but I'll have to either use it with a single chip, or in a horizontal case, since I don't trust what's left of the socket to securely hold a CPU cooler.

Also got 3 Matrox G450 PCI and a Rage 128 PCI (witch unfortunatly is from a mac).

I also got a couple of socket 370 asus tualatin boards (CUSL2 and TUV4X), an ATX socket 7 intel board made by daewoo with native K6-2 support, a wierd Palit Geforce 4 MX440 with 3.5ns ram, a socket 423 Asus P4T-M, some micro ATX slot A board + 750MHz athlon, and other assorted goodies, unfortunatly I haven't looked them over yet and they come from a recycling center, witch means at least some of them are damaged.

I also bought a generic beige box budget PC for the video card alone. I was hoping it was a SiS 315, but it turned out to be a 305 (not bad, didn't have one of those either). Tested OK, performance-wise it's similar to the Vanta and TNT2 M64. The rest of the machine is not interesting. KT133A ECS motherboard, 800MHz duron, some SDRAM, and a dead 20GB quantum fireball HDD.

PcBytes wrote on 2024-11-01, 20:21:

A nice addition to my Voodoo collection. A 12MB Voodoo 2, namely Gainward's Dragon 3000.

Would love to see your collection list 😉

Picked up a nice ATI 9600XT Reference edition for 16$ to my door. Great cheap pickup from the "Bay". Works great, Only needed some new thermal paste 👍.

Oooh nice! The 9600XT is a great card. I used to have one for a while but sadly it bit the dust. And yes definitely redo the thermal paste on these old video cards, it will help a lot.

Got a QuadroFX 1300, aka GF PCX5900. A FX5900 with PCIe bridge.
Works great in XP on my G41 motherboard, just tested. Need to test in win98 too.
It's funny how the card runs relatively cool, but the bridge chip is very hot despite the big heatsink it has on. May have to rig a fan blowing on it.

AGP4LIfe? wrote on 2024-11-01, 22:06:

Picked up a nice ATI 9600XT Reference edition for 16$ to my door. Great cheap pickup from the "Bay". Works great, Only needed some new thermal paste 👍.

jelly. with BGA memories and in red!

109-A73533-00 2006/12/08 14:05 RV351 P/N 113-A73502-101 BIOS VER008.017D.034.004 Device ID 4150
109-A73503-00 2005/07/11 15:26 RV351 P/N 133-A58507-103 BIOS VER008.017D.034.004 Device ID 4150

109-A73533-00 inside regular PC with Win98,109-A73503-00 looks exactly same/similar, both with 2xDVI (Dual Link 2560x1600 supported).

Would like to have one RV351 (110nm) Radeon 9600 Pro, someone have those PC/MAC compatible cards?

I might have to rethink my strategy collecting retro hardware. Every time I think about downsizing my collection I end up thinking about what I want to keep and end up buying additional stuff. No, that’s not supposed to be a dad joke.

Today’s buy …

CMB75 wrote on 2024-11-03, 18:29:

I might have to rethink my strategy collecting retro hardware. Every time I think about downsizing my collection I end up thinking about what I want to keep and end up buying additional stuff. No, that’s not supposed to be a dad joke.

Preach. I bought another Socket 7 motherboard recently as well, because it was a good board at a good price and I don't have many Socket 7 boards. I also have way too many motherds already and have been trying to (unsuccessfully) downsize them. That's a really nice kit you bought, though.

One of the ways I limit myself is that I have a rule that I only buy ATX motherboards. I would like to have at least one baby AT 386, but that hasn't happened.

Speaking of socket 7 boards.....I grabbed this Epox EP-MVP3C2 yesterday. Apparently, it's not posting but the board is in perfect physical condition. Hopefully I can get it to come alive. The voltage selector goes down to 1.8v so glad it supports K6-2/3+. Happy it has a SB-Link. There doesn't seem to be too much info on this board. Retroweb doesn’t have a picture of it so will send in one https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/epox-pronix-ep-mvp3c2

Try reflashing the BIOS. It might have some bit rot preventing it from booting. I have I also seen boards fail to POST with a dead CMOS battery. Luckily, yours is a coin cell.

Got 2 AMD computers to play with. Need to work through a few others before really cracking into them, but one has and Aureal Vortex and LS120 drive, which had me sold!

Found a nice Diamond Stealth64 DRAM PCI card with 1MB expansion memory and a Mountain Tape drive M#01-05685-01 40MB. Haven't looked it up or really looked at it yet, but seems intact.

Also picked up these cards, because I recently became owner of a EISA board, but still had no cards. 2 bucks for both but one has obvious damage. They are the same MYLEX DCE376 (rev.E and F).

Kahenraz wrote on 2024-11-03, 20:45:

Try reflashing the BIOS. It might have some bit rot preventing it from booting. I have I also seen boards fail to POST with a dead CMOS battery. Luckily, yours is a coin cell.

That’s the first thing I’m going to do. Reflash the BIOS and put in a new battery. Would be pretty happy if the issue was just bit rot or dead battery.

AGP4LIfe? wrote on 2024-11-01, 22:06:

Picked up a nice ATI 9600XT Reference edition for 16$ to my door. Great cheap pickup from the "Bay". Works great, Only needed some new thermal paste 👍.

I have one too but unfortunately it is artifacting a bit... 🙁

I have no idea if it is just some capacitors or the Vram chips went bad ... OR if the video chip needs reballing or reflowing or replacing :p

Great find buddy !

Found this beauty at a flea market

It seems to be a MAD16 with the Opti chip 82C929A
It also seems to have the real OPL3 chip 😀

unisound doesn't seem to detect it. Either it is not PnP or it is not working

I need to find the drivers for it to see if its ok

Nunoalex wrote on 2024-11-03, 22:07:

unisound doesn't seem to detect it either it is not PnP or it is not working

It's from early 1994, I don't think it's PnP.

You can try cleaning the contacts, some of them look kind of corroded.