Dirkmirk, that card looks cool - it does amuse me how the same card in PCI form is almost half the size though! Definitely seems like a good card to have in a VLB collection.

dirkmirk wrote:

I'll put this head to head against a ET4000W32P and see who wins, would the ET4000 be at disadvantage with only 1MB?

Please do. I have a VLB card with the same chip, but nobody has benched it against the card everyone talks about (W32p).

Memory above 1MB shouldn't matter in VGA benches.

The second megabyte DOES matter in VGA benchmarks, because when it is installed memory interleaving is enabled (simulates 64-bit datapath).

Anonymous Coward wrote:

The second megabyte DOES matter in VGA benchmarks, because when it is installed memory interleaving is enabled (simulates 64-bit datapath).

How much then?

m1919 wrote:

Scored an SGI 550L Visual Workstation. […]
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Scored an SGI 550L Visual Workstation.

I have no real interest in the case, just the hardware inside. Board is an M29A based on the i840 chipset. Runs 133Mhz P3 "Xeons."

Hopefully I didn't bidsnipe anyone on here 🤣 for this.

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/161287048990?ssPageNam … 984.m1497.l2649

Hello, and congrats on getting that SGI 550L computer.
I was wondering what’s the graphics card installed in that machine. I have an SGI VPro VR3 graphics card that is based on the original nvidia quadro GPU; however, have been always intrigued about the existence of a SGI VPro VR7 (Quadro2 Pro)??. Do you have any way of telling what graphics card that SGI system comes with? thanks

Looking at the datasheet, those shipped new with either the VR7, or the V7. Strange that it has an 800 MHz Xeon fitted when the specsheet doesn't list anything below a 866 MHz unit.

I bought a Kawai GMega over a classified ad. 😁
Have some Pics!
http://imgur.com/a/5sj5I#0

3Dude wrote:

m1919 wrote:

Scored an SGI 550L Visual Workstation. […]
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Scored an SGI 550L Visual Workstation.

I have no real interest in the case, just the hardware inside. Board is an M29A based on the i840 chipset. Runs 133Mhz P3 "Xeons."

Hopefully I didn't bidsnipe anyone on here 🤣 for this.

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/161287048990?ssPageNam … 984.m1497.l2649

Hello, and congrats on getting that SGI 550L computer.
I was wondering what’s the graphics card installed in that machine. I have an SGI VPro VR3 graphics card that is based on the original nvidia quadro GPU; however, have been always intrigued about the existence of a SGI VPro VR7 (Quadro2 Pro)??. Do you have any way of telling what graphics card that SGI system comes with? thanks

I can confirm what card it has when I receive the box. It's being shipped to my forwarding service; I'm not gonna have it on hand until I have it shipped up. I believe it's running a Quadro variant of some kind, most likely probably either the VR7 or V7.

Lukeno94 wrote:

Looking at the datasheet, those shipped new with either the VR7, or the V7. Strange that it has an 800 MHz Xeon fitted when the specsheet doesn't list anything below a 866 MHz unit.

It'll probably run any 133Mhz FSB Xeon. I've got a pair of 1Ghz Xeons waiting for it.

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That system looks great. I really wish I'd bought one of the two Pentium laptops that I found on eBay for about £10 to fix up, but ah well. I like the metal caps on the S3 card as well - that should last a fair bit longer than some of the cheapo cards I've seen.

Wow! $15 was a super great deal for that system!

In a word: Sweet.

Video Cards

Matrox Millennium G550 (G55+MDHA32DR) PN 79075010820 32MB AGP (Boxed) (2001)

Matrox Millenium (BD-MAT-MIL-4MB) 4MB WRAM PCI (Boxed) (1995)

Matrox Mystique - MGA-MYST-4N (1064SG) 4MB SGRAM PCI (NOS) (1996)

S3 Trio 64V+ - STB (86C765) 2MB PCI (1995)

S3 Trio 64V+ - Diamond Stealth64 Video (86C765) 2MB PCI (1995)

Sound Cards

Roland SCC-1 ISA (Boxed) (1992)

Terratec MiniWaveSystem SOWT-11 Ver 1.0 (Dream SAM9233 - 1MB ROM - 32 voices)

Terratec WaveSystem SCW0012 Ver. 1.0 (MPB-000004) (Dream SAM9203 - 2MB ROM - 24 Voices)

4x Turtle Beach Monterey (Tahiti + Rio daughterboard) Rev. 5.2 ISA (Boxed) (1992)
One guy stuffed three of these cards in one box with just the diskettes, and the second Monterey box I received had a single card with all manuals but no disks. So I guess I have one complete set between these two.. 😵

Turtle Beach (Voyetra) Multisound Fiji Pro Series ISA (NOS) (1997)

Creative CT4380 (Sound Blaster AWE64) ISA (NOS) (1996)

Creative CT2760 (Sound Blaster AWE32) ISA with Memory (1994)

Motherboards

Motherboard - Asus CUSL2-C Rev. 1.02 Socket 370 (Intel 815EP) with PIII 800Mhz (Coppermine) & 256MB (2000)

Motherboard - Asus TUSL2-C Rev. 1.04 Socket 370 (Intel 815EP) with PIII 1Ghz (Coppermine) & 128MB (2001)

Motherboard - DFI K6BV3+66 Rev. B1 Super Socket 7 with CPU & RAM (2000)

Processors

Processor - Overdrive - Intel Pentium Overdrive (BPODPMT66X200SL2RM) (NOS) (1997)

Processor - Kingston TurboChip 133 (TC5x86-133) #2 (NOS) (1995)

Processor - Intel 486 DX2-66 (80486DX266) (SX955) (Write Back Cache) (1992)

Processor - Intel 486 DX4-100 (80486DX4100) (SK051) (Write Through Cache) (1994)

Processor - Intel 486 DX4-100 (80486DX4100) (SK096) (Write Back Cache) (1994)

Artex wrote:

4x Turtle Beach Monterey (Tahiti + Rio daughterboard) Rev. 5.2 ISA (Boxed) (1992)

Ah! Overbid me. :)

Is the black part on the Monterey cards meant to be a shield?

Artex wrote:

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Video Cards

...4x Turtle Beach Monterey (Tahiti + Rio daughterboard) Rev. 5.2 ISA (Boxed) (1992)
One guy stuffed three of these cards in one box with just the diskettes, and the second Monterey box I received had a single card with all manuals but no disks. So I guess I have one complete set between these two.. 😵

Ironically I have been looking (very consistently) for a Turtle beach Monterrey for more than 2 years now, without any look. I stopped looking for about a month or so and 2 showed up on eBay (and one in a tetra combo bundle) …well what I can say? 😒 …congrats…

Someone please ban Artex from posting. Seriously. 🤣

easy_john wrote:

Artex wrote:

4x Turtle Beach Monterey (Tahiti + Rio daughterboard) Rev. 5.2 ISA (Boxed) (1992)

Ah! Overbid me. 😀

The seller would do a way better deal seeling those cards separately . Monterey especially boxed is very hard to find those days.

Cool stuff! 😀

Artex wrote:

...4x Turtle Beach Monterey (Tahiti + Rio daughterboard) Rev. 5.2 ISA (Boxed) (1992)

Now it's turtles all the way down!

That's provided you pile up stuff in your basement.

bristlehog wrote:

Artex wrote:

...4x Turtle Beach Monterey (Tahiti + Rio daughterboard) Rev. 5.2 ISA (Boxed) (1992)

Now it's turtles all the way down!

That's provided you pile up stuff in your basement.

Hah! Was thinking the same thing. Now I have to reorganize my stacks again. 😜