Trashbytes wrote on 2025-06-14, 15:26:

dominusprog wrote on 2025-06-14, 15:20:

zuldan wrote on 2025-06-13, 21:09:

Is lithium grease ok?

Personally, I used grease spray. But lithium grease is a good choice too, just make sure it's clean.

Lithium grease isn't good for electronic parts or anything made from plastic or rubber, its slightly conductive and will degrade plastic/.rubber overtime .. silicone grease is safe and its what many electricians use since its inert to plastics and non conductive.

The conductive risk from lithium grease is low but why take any chances with retro parts when you don't have to.

Oh, I didn't know it'll degrade the plastic. Good to know.

A yearly fleamarket I go to, not an internal card to be seen this year, there's usually at least a modem or NIC kicking around in ISA or PCI flavors. However scored some bits and pieces to help out, and a full system from 1982...

... A Timex Sinclair 1000, BASICly a ZX-81 with the RAM doubled to a whole 2kB.. boxed, but no paperwork, looks very little used, still smells kinda new. Gotta get my 3D Monster Maze on.

Then I guess the actual retro bits in the rest are really just the Slot 1 cooler, which is a help when I've got 2 functioning ones for 5 CPU and an ATI GPU cooler for spare. Nice fat fat fan there, might go on a ridiculous K6-3+ build. Corsair 750W PSU, real heavy that one. 744W available on single 12V rail, that oughta fry something real good. Been a 21st century PSU down since Jan so, noice. USB 2.0 PC Card, VGA2USB, I was thinking that was gonna be a crappy slow usb VGA card, but no it's actual USB VGA capture, which will be interesting to get caps from DOS stuff with no screenshotting. Another USB-IDE adapter, maybe this one will work right since it's a "brand" though Vantec is a'ight but not stellar. Then some "toy" oscilloscope, only 1 MSPS, ~200khz nominal. Mayyyyy be useful for a handful of things... started wondering if I could maybe build a floppy drive alignment rig with it.

Then unpictured, some generic stuff like a DB25 shell, odds and ends of connectors, a couple of 1 whole Farad capacitors, wondering about using for a NVRAM card, and a more retro than most stuff piece, a 70s Scout/Camp knife by Colonial, which should be a nice usable pocket knife.

Couple of recent pickups!

ATI RV670 Pro - GeCube HD3850 (256-bit) 512MB AGP (Boxed) (2008)

ATI R350 - Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro Atlantis Ultimate Edition 256MB AGP (256-bit) (Boxed) (2003)

Creative CT1350A (Sound Blaster 2.0) (049151) (Boxed) ISA (1991) (Early Rev!)

Turtle Beach Multisound Pinnacle ISA (Kurzweil MA-1) w-Kurzweil HOMAC daughterboard (Boxed) (1996)

3DFX Voodoo Banshee - ATrend Helios3D Banshee 16MB AGP (Boxed) (1998)

Artex wrote on 2025-06-15, 00:33:

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Couple of recent pickups!

ATI RV670 Pro - GeCube HD3850 (256-bit) 512MB AGP (Boxed) (2008)

ATI R350 - Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro Atlantis Ultimate Edition 256MB AGP (256-bit) (NOB) (2003)

Creative CT1350A (Sound Blaster 2.0) (049151) (Boxed) ISA (1991) (Early Rev!)

Turtle Beach Multisound Pinnacle ISA (Kurzweil MA-1) w-Kurzweil HOMAC daughterboard (Boxed) (1996)

3DFX Voodoo Banshee - ATrend Helios3D Banshee 16MB AGP (Boxed) (1998)

Nice collection, especially that Turtle Beach sound card and the Helios3D.

It’s hard to believe that something like this is getting to be retro, but I definitely bought it for a retro project. I ordered this Sound Blaster Audigy Rx (SB1550) from eBay for $30 shipped listed as “untested” (seller’s photo). I didn’t see any physical damage from the closeup pictures, so I decided to roll the dice that the seller didn’t have the time to bother testing the card.

I have a dilemma on my i7-9700k/Z370 retro rocket and Windows 2000. Windows 2000 can’t enumerate all of the PCIE-to-PCI bridges on the motherboard in MPS mode, so Windows 2000 drivers can’t see / interface the Sound Blaster Audigy I put into the board’s lone PCI slot. The X-Fi Titanium I have installed in the system for newer operating systems doesn’t have drivers for Windows 2000. I had to resort to using the motherboard's built-in Realtek ALC1220 codec with Windows 2000, but that is sub-optimal since I got into EAX game support recently. I wanted an audio solution for this machine with full EAX support (either PCIE or USB).

I did some research, and I found out that the Audigy Rx is just an Audigy 4 processor behind a PCIE-to-PCI bridge chip. This should allow me to use Audigy 4 drivers for Windows 2000 with the Rx card as long as Windows 2000 can enumerate the card’s PCIE-to-PCI bridge.

I also like that this card will come with the original box and documentation. I don’t need them, but that stuff is always nice to have.

I received my "new" CGA card a few days ago. I studied the schematics a bit beforehand, and on the card I located the pins that are supposed to carry a composite video signal.
I'll see when I run the tests. I'll use the oscilloscope to verify this, and then I'll connect the signal to a TV.
If it's successful, I'll see if I have a bracket that works for it and already has a hole for the composite video connector. If not, I'll have to drill one.

kinetix wrote on 2025-06-15, 16:23:

I received my "new" CGA card a few days ago. I studied the schematics a bit beforehand, and on the card I located the pins that are supposed to carry a composite video signal.
I'll see when I run the tests. I'll use the oscilloscope to verify this, and then I'll connect the signal to a TV.
If it's successful, I'll see if I have a bracket that works for it and already has a hole for the composite video connector. If not, I'll have to drill one.

Yes, they really missed the mark by not putting an RCA jack on the card.

ATi_Loyalist wrote on 2025-06-04, 21:23:

Major Jackyl wrote on 2025-06-04, 01:20:

Wow! Snatched those right away. How random is that?!

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I've spent so much time visiting goodwills hoping and dreaming for something like this and never ever having any luck, thinking it just isn't possible, theres no way anyone will ever find hardware in a goodwill....thanks for sharing! It is possible!!!! Thanks for giving me hope! 😆🤣

It's definitely rare but it can happen. I've found brand new in box PC133 SDRAM at a thrift store for a buck. Found a brand new Diamond Monster sound card for a few bucks as well as a brand new 3com ISA faxmodem. Among other things.

It's not the case anymore, but in the recent past I've scored a few complete and mostly complete PC towers for $5 each at the local thrift stores, until new managers came in and jacked prices up to $30 or more. I'm talking beige cases, Antec cases, slot 1 hardware, socket 370 and A hardware, really good stuff. Glad I looted them good while it was cheap.

dominusprog wrote on 2025-06-15, 19:32:

kinetix wrote on 2025-06-15, 16:23:

I received my "new" CGA card a few days ago. I studied the schematics a bit beforehand, and on the card I located the pins that are supposed to carry a composite video signal.
I'll see when I run the tests. I'll use the oscilloscope to verify this, and then I'll connect the signal to a TV.
If it's successful, I'll see if I have a bracket that works for it and already has a hole for the composite video connector. If not, I'll have to drill one.

Yes, they really missed the mark by not putting an RCA jack on the card.

These new cards seem to be made to a specific price point ..and then they spammed ebay with listings for them.

Never realized there were so many spare ICs around to make these.

Artex wrote on 2025-06-15, 00:33:

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Couple of recent pickups!

3DFX Voodoo Banshee - ATrend Helios3D Banshee 16MB AGP (Boxed) (1998)

Funny how Everest partially identifies the Banshee as a Voodoo 3

Sega Saturn arcade stick [MOD wireless ]
Can use with windows 98

Bought this nice Panasonic ToughBook CF-28 in a perfect shape, almost new, only few scratches.
It is sad that it has a QWERTZ keyboard and has no FDD.

I just got this bigtower with an Intel Endeavor (?) inside, pun intended. The riser for the on-board Vibra 16S is missing, is it worth getting it or...

PD2JK wrote on 2025-06-16, 14:21:

I just got this bigtower with an Intel Endeavor (?) inside, pun intended. The riser for the on-board Vibra 16S is missing, is it worth getting it or...

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But you were lucky that it have the COAST module. Because with the experience I had with them, they're not universal. Nice board by the way 🙂.

H3nrik V! wrote on 2025-06-16, 06:19:

Artex wrote on 2025-06-15, 00:33:

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Couple of recent pickups!

3DFX Voodoo Banshee - ATrend Helios3D Banshee 16MB AGP (Boxed) (1998)

Funny how Everest partially identifies the Banshee as a Voodoo 3

Right? ! I thought the same.

Bought this Roland RA30 Realtime Arranger for 40€. Mainly because I thought it looked cool.

There's a thread about similar device: Roland RA30 Realtime Arranger (secret sound canvas?)

It sounds pretty good. I tried it with a few games. Some of them worked well, some were a bit weird. When you start playing midi, it automatically switches to GM. If you press "others" button when powering on, it goes into GS mode. Some games like the other better. Transport Tycoon, for example, was a mess in GM, but sounded excellent in GS.

One step closer to "restoring" my newly acquired German/Aldi Foods Medion PC to it's original 2003 glory.

Discussed Here: Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Picked up the missing TV/FM Tuner card over on eBay for $6.59 + $3.50 shipping, for use in the systems proprietary PCI slot, and it just arrived! 😀

Once I get it started, it will get its own thread.

For me... nothing much. A Sony Vaio PCG-Z600LEK, which is, IMO, a thinner Latitude CPx done right. (YMF744 instead of ESS)

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Wow that ATi logo is toasty brown. This is why I rarely go for these full passive video cards. Great looking design, quiet, but unless the previous owner had good case ventilation or - preferably - hat a fan blowing right at the card (witch seems to be the case with your card judging by the 80mm zalman fan), then it's already dead. I suppose the browning of the ATi logo could be from an attempt to run the card passive then, as I find it hard to believe it got that toasted during regular use with a fan blowing on it. It would go to what, 60-70C tops?

That 3850 AGP is sweet... fastest AGP card ever released. I've been looking for one for a long while, came across a couple, both dead (bad bridge chip). I have a 4670, but despite what reviews say, it's in fact noticeably slower then the 3850.

Great finds as usual.

Socket3 wrote on 2025-06-17, 09:03:

Wow that ATi logo is toasty brown. This is why I rarely go for these full passive video cards. Great looking design, quiet, but […]
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Wow that ATi logo is toasty brown. This is why I rarely go for these full passive video cards. Great looking design, quiet, but unless the previous owner had good case ventilation or - preferably - hat a fan blowing right at the card (witch seems to be the case with your card judging by the 80mm zalman fan), then it's already dead. I suppose the browning of the ATi logo could be from an attempt to run the card passive then, as I find it hard to believe it got that toasted during regular use with a fan blowing on it. It would go to what, 60-70C tops?

That 3850 AGP is sweet... fastest AGP card ever released. I've been looking for one for a long while, came across a couple, both dead (bad bridge chip). I have a 4670, but despite what reviews say, it's in fact noticeably slower then the 3850.

Great finds as usual.

I have this exact Sapphire 9800 Pro card and can confirm it gets crazy hot, it really does require some active cooling or exceptional case air flow, it looks amazing but the 9800 Pro is not a chip you want to try and passively cool.

Mine looks like its not been used much as the ATI logo is still the nice red colour but I wont be using it much, it get far too hot and I know the history of the 9700 Pro/9800 Pro cards well enough top know they dont like the heat.