philscomputerlab wrote:

boxpressed wrote:

This arrived in the mail today. One of the things to watch out for on eBay is retail packaging with a non-matching card. After upgrading, the buyer just puts the old card into the new card's box. I figured that that was what was happening here: a CT1350B in a CT1730 box. Floppies go to the SB 2.0. Not a bad deal for about $20 shipped. This happens a lot with video cards too.
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Interesting. You can contact the seller and get a discount out of this situation...

Nice bonus. Were were looking for a SB2.0, boxpressed, and are happy about the "mixup"?

QBiN wrote:

philscomputerlab wrote:

boxpressed wrote:

This arrived in the mail today. One of the things to watch out for on eBay is retail packaging with a non-matching card. After upgrading, the buyer just puts the old card into the new card's box. I figured that that was what was happening here: a CT1350B in a CT1730 box. Floppies go to the SB 2.0. Not a bad deal for about $20 shipped. This happens a lot with video cards too.
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Interesting. You can contact the seller and get a discount out of this situation...

Nice bonus. Were were looking for a SB2.0, boxpressed, and are happy about the "mixup"?

Asking for a discount when getting a sound card worth at least 3 times at much by mistake would not be very nice! The box isnt worthless as its easy to find that model of SB16 without a box. 😀

Here is one of my latest finds! I could not resist this little board, its actually a little bit smaller than the normal "tomato sized" boards.

UMC MB477 V1.1 (no cache) with a UMC 486SX-33 and a socket for 5V 486 CPUs. I have seen this board before but never with the socket present.

Skyscraper wrote:

Here is one of my latest finds! I could not resist this little board, its actually a little bit smaller than the normal "tomato sized" boards.

UMC MB477 V1.1 with a UMC 486SX and a socket for 5V 486 CPUs (no cache). I have seen this board before but never with the socket present.

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Nice pickup Skyscraper. I love those tiny Baby AT boards. If they only came with built-in Multi-IO.

A work pal of mine recently found a UMC 486 SX 40 machine, the case was a wreck, but after a rebuild into a replacement mini tower & S3 805 VLB video card to replace the 256k Realtek VGA it had it works great, much faster than i was expecting despite having no cache and being on a PC-CHIPS board. Work mate is really happy with it and playing all the CHAMP arcade games,Asterocks particularly, MS Arcade on win 3.1 & old DOS demos, crystal dreams & second reality run sweet as a nut! This one has a surface mount CPU too but is on a VLB board, spots are there for a CPU socket(not fitted).

Sorry for my poorly-worded post about the CT1350B earlier. I should have said that I bought the item *knowing* that the items were mismatched because I *wanted* a CT1350B. (A CT1730 with a matching box and disks would be worth $20, too.) In other words, I knew what I was getting. My point was that you sometimes find a gem that a previous owner had put into the new item's box, so it's worth looking more carefully at all the photos. (Also to avoid getting a Vanta when you think you're getting a Ti4600.)

Got me a pair of 6800 AGP cards. One is a Leadtek A400LE (6800LE 8p/4s), the other is a 256MB MSI 6800GT AGP. Paid too much for them - 30 euro for both.

Unfortunately the MSI was DOA... I took the cooler off and found a tiny SMD capacitor torn off. I replaced it and the card posts, but I get severe 2D artifacting. Shame.

On the other hand I was able to unlock the 6800 LE to the full 16p/6v with Riva Tuner. No artefacts and the board runs stable and cool at 400 core / 700 mem. It doeas a little over 11500 in 3dm03.

I tried reflowing the MSI but to no avail. I'll see if I can find someone to fix it since I have an Asus Geforce 4 Ti4600 / 128MB with the same problem.

5900 Ultra

Even though I've got a Asus 5950 Ultra with a Artic Cooling NV Cooler on, it's just something about the classic cooler which draws me in.

I've just benchmarked it on my P4 Prescott 3Ghz, it scores just less than 150 points than the 5950 @ Stock clocks (450/475mhz) Its running at 400/425mhz.

386_junkie wrote:

Just picked her up as she was local and going for a fair £14. […]
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Just picked her up as she was local and going for a fair £14.

Bought the board 4 days ago thinking it was a cool 486 IBM VLB board. Today was the day I realised...

i have (75MHz 386) Blue Lightning!

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I have (75MHz 386) Blue Lightning!

Trying really really hard to keep a lid on things here.

386_junkie wrote:

Bought the board 4 days ago thinking it was a cool 486 IBM VLB board. Today was the day I realised... […]
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386_junkie wrote:

Just picked her up as she was local and going for a fair £14. […]
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Just picked her up as she was local and going for a fair £14.

Bought the board 4 days ago thinking it was a cool 486 IBM VLB board. Today was the day I realised...

i have (75MHz 386) Blue Lightning!

...

I have (75MHz 386) Blue Lightning!

Trying really really hard to keep a lid on things here.

Awesome, I had one of these for a short while as works machine, it truly was a lightning for the time!
Keep us updated with the build 😀

Best,
Chris

got thise beauty today. A commodore pc-1. It was a trade. sadly the psu died moments after checking it. Have to see if i can fix it, if not i can bring it back.

Very nice commodore seob! ! I don't know what you traded for but its probably not worth returning. Those are pretty rare so I would hang on to it and just try to fix the psu.

On the subject of commodore, I just picked up this today for $20! Nice used in the box commodore 64.

This is my fourth commodore 64 I own and second boxed one I have but this is one of the earlier models I believe and I think my boxed one is a lot different and a bit newer too. It came with a boxed 1541 floppy drive and cable too. 😀

retrofanatic wrote:

Very nice commodore seob! ! I don't know what you traded for but its probably not worth returning. Those are pretty rare so I w […]
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Very nice commodore seob! ! I don't know what you traded for but its probably not worth returning. Those are pretty rare so I would hang on to it and just try to fix the psu.

On the subject of commodore, I just picked up this today for $20! Nice used in the box commodore 64.

This is my fourth commodore 64 I own and second boxed one I have but this is one of the earlier models I believe and I think my boxed one is a lot different and a bit newer too. It came with a boxed 1541 floppy drive and cable too. 😀

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Traded it in for a cosmeticly bad snes with hookups and nes with non original psu and hookups.

retrofanatic wrote:

On the subject of commodore, I just picked up this today for $20! Nice used in the box commodore 64.

20 bucks! Good deal. C64's were so common around these parts that you can still get them for cheap if you're patient, but most sellers on eBay are asking $100 plus.

I've stockpiled a few spares so hopefully I can keep my breadbin running until the end of days 😎

Picked up this fine GeForce 4 Ti 4600 today at my local recycling center for only $10.

There's some slight ghosting on the VGA signal (mostly visible when viewing folders) but the DVI side is fine.

edit: Actually, nevermind about that ghosting bit, I think the VGA cable is to blame, as I noticed it on other cards as well.

386_junkie wrote:

Bought the board 4 days ago thinking it was a cool 486 IBM VLB board. Today was the day I realised... […]
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Bought the board 4 days ago thinking it was a cool 486 IBM VLB board. Today was the day I realised...

i have (75MHz 386) Blue Lightning!

...

I have (75MHz 386) Blue Lightning!

Trying really really hard to keep a lid on things here.

Not only that, it looks like it has MR BIOS! Make sure to dump it.

Rawrl wrote:

Not only that, it looks like it has MR BIOS! Make sure to dump it.

I've got a 386SX-40 ALi board with MR.BIOS, are you interested in the BIOS dump? 😀

Bought this lot of sound cards for about $50 shipped.

I really only wanted the Waveblaster II for my collection. It comes with a CT1790 with ASP, and it works fine. The MIDI from the 2MB patch set is really subpar, but that's what I was expecting.

The E-MU card and breakout box are interesting. I didn't even know that Creative has a "professional" line with E-MU.

Although I dislike the Live! cards, I finally have an original CT4760 with gold-plated connectors.

And an Audigy and a Hercules C-Media card (I think) round out the lot.

Rawrl wrote:

Not only that, it looks like it has MR BIOS! Make sure to dump it.

Can this be done by software alone?... I do not yet have an external ROM reader / burner.

Thanks

Nice haul boxpressed.

386_junkie wrote:

i have (75MHz 386) Blue Lightning!

That is indeed a special find - congrats!