Yeah, it's the SB Live! 5.1 Platinum. As for the production year, I found this review from 1999: http://www.hardware-one.com/reviews.asp?aid=104&page=1

The downside is that the seller lost the box (it looks amazing in that review) but well, everything else seems in good condition. He's also sending me a couple of games that came with it, Descent 3 and Thief: The Dark Project.

It looks like it takes a drive bay. How does it connect to the sound card?

You use an ribbon cable. I think you can use an classic IDE cable.
All external/internal consoles connect with Ribbon cable when it comes to Live and Audigy 1.

Stojke wrote:

Build a Pentium 3 armor 😁

Any >700MHz in there?

Yes, there are from 450mhz up to 733MHz. I keep one for each speed.

Received those for my PCMCIA card on-going collection and a lovely pair of Xeon:

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Received those for my PCMCIA card on-going collection and a lovely pair of Xeon:

Nice. Too bad there's pretty much only one workstation/desktop board that'll run 5/12V Xeons and it's impossible to find.

m1919 wrote:

Nice. Too bad there's pretty much only one workstation/desktop board that'll run 5/12V Xeons and it's impossible to find.

Finding a compatible board wasn't a problem.

Some new stuff...

Cyrix 5x86-120gp 026-2.6v IBM9314 P38013 50H5750 G5K8548B (Socket 3) (1995)

Creative CT1350B Rev. 0 (Sound Blaster 2.0) (Boxed - Value Edition) (1991)

Network Interface Card - 3Com Etherlink III 3C509B-TPO ISA (1996)

Motherboard - Asus TX-97 Socket 7 (Intel 430TX) with Pentium 166 w/MMX (1997)

Motherboard - Asus P2B-LS Rev. 1.03 Slot 1 (Intel 440BX) (1998)

Rendition Vérité V2200 - Legend QDI VGA V2200 8MB AGP (1997)

Nice cyrix chip.

I got one just like it.

Has the misses kicked you out yet? 😜

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Some new stuff...

Creative CT1350B Rev. 0 (Sound Blaster 2.0) (Boxed - Value Edition) (1991)

That's actually a Rev. 6 CT1350B.

BTW, can you take a look at the manual, other documentation and see if there is any reference to CMS/Gameblaster ?

Nice, I didn't realize that cards not marked with a REV could still be versioned. I'll check the manual..

Thanks!

Where did the Cyrix chip come from?

sliderider wrote:

Where did the Cyrix chip come from?

Ask RGart - I'm sure he can track down where I picked it up. 😜

Artex wrote:

sliderider wrote:

Where did the Cyrix chip come from?

Ask RGart - I'm sure he can track down where I picked it up. 😜

What about the rendition card? I haven't seen that one pop up on ebay, unless i was just slow 😉

Jan3Sobieski wrote:

Artex wrote:

sliderider wrote:

Where did the Cyrix chip come from?

Ask RGart - I'm sure he can track down where I picked it up. 😜

What about the rendition card? I haven't seen that one pop up on ebay, unless i was just slow 😉

Another eBay auction - got it from a guy in Germany who didn't speak/write ANY English. Google Translate for the win on that one....

Artex wrote:

Another eBay auction - got it from a guy in Germany who didn't speak/write ANY English. Google Translate for the win on that one....

Nice, i have to start checking foreign ebays. 😀

rgart wrote:

Has the misses kicked you out yet? 😜

Not yet. 😀

BTW, can you take a look at the manual, other documentation and see if there is any reference to CMS/Gameblaster ?

Absolutely nothing about CMS/Gameblaster upgrade in the manual. In fact, most of the manual is for the bundled software.

Thinkpad 600 2645 (pentium 2) for $5
Really faulty Latitude D620 for $20 (working on fixing the board)

I just got a Sound Commander FX... i dont know anything about it but seems to work fine as a Sound Blaster clone, maybe the PCM is mixed at too low volume compaerd to FM output though.

Looks like it can be upgraded to become a Sound Blaster PRO clone by adding a second OPL2.