EvieSigma wrote on 2026-05-15, 23:11:

An extremely good motherboard, turns out... […]
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douglar wrote on 2026-05-15, 01:24:

EvieSigma wrote on 2026-05-14, 21:40:

The E-waste bins at work typically only have crap LCD monitors, peripherals, and broken laser printers. So when some stuff that very much ISN'T that got dumped today, I grabbed as much as I could!

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I love that style of ~1994 AT case. Those were by favorite. Looks just like my 486-100 VLB system.

What's inside?

An extremely good motherboard, turns out...

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Haven't figured out the CPU yet but I imagine it's probably a K6 or K6-2.

Crap, do I envy parts with less tight-arsed disposal legislation.
Here in Germany, junk yard staff beat you with tennis rackets if you come to close to those things.
Some crap about privacy commitments, regarding hard drives.
Also, to enrich some Bulgarian buddy of theirs.

The ALI chipset for SS7 was supposed to be quicker and have better compatibility, as opposed to the VIA offerings.
Going by the optics, that board is at least the second inside that case.
The PSU makes sense as the K6-x line was maybe the first to have that "you'll need a really huge new PSU" craze attached to it.
(If not Pentium III or Athlon).

Is that ATI card anything to write home about? I used to dismiss those als "well, ATI, generic low-end junk."

More importantly, what's with that full-lengh ISA card? That certainly wasn't anything consumer/retail?

I think the long isa card is one of those multimedia modem cards that may have advertised that it supported video conferencing. As long as your idea of that was an animated postage stamp. So I am saying it's a soundcard and modem in one, may or may not have extra hardware video codecs on.