Just picked up a pair of ATX socket 7 motherboards with unknown K6 CPUs and some RAM. It's about 30 miles from me and arranged local pickup and offered him 35 USD and he went for it.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/182493453074?

Rhuwyn wrote:

Just picked up a pair of ATX socket 7 motherboards with unknown K6 CPUs and some RAM. It's about 30 miles from me and arranged local pickup and offered him 35 USD and he went for it.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/182493453074?

Your eBay searching must be really talented to find 2 estate sale motherboards with little to no description listed under Switches. They look like SS7 boards, possibly the left one is a GA-5AX?

Was at my local Fry's Electronics today looking for some audio cables and stumbled upon this in the computer cables isle. Snatched em all up.

New-Old-Stock SCSI Ultra-320 cables. Sadly no built in terminators, but still. I have some scsi equipment still around I could use these for.

dexvx wrote:

Rhuwyn wrote:

Just picked up a pair of ATX socket 7 motherboards with unknown K6 CPUs and some RAM. It's about 30 miles from me and arranged local pickup and offered him 35 USD and he went for it.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/182493453074?

Your eBay searching must be really talented to find 2 estate sale motherboards with little to no description listed under Switches. They look like SS7 boards, possibly the left one is a GA-5AX?

Thanks!, one of the things I do is seach the entire computers catagory and sort by what is closest to me. That way I can sometimes find local pickups. I will also sort by lowest price sometimes just to see what comes up. Sometimes I find low cost auctions that are discribed badly because no one has bid on them.

As far as the boards are concerned I think the boxes are from Gigabyte Socket A motherboards. These are SS7. The right motherboard you can see the model number is M5ALA which google tells me is a Biostar motherboard. The left motherboard I can't find any identifying markings and it's clearly a different motherboard but it looks like it has the same ALI chipset.

kithylin wrote:

Was at my local Fry's Electronics today looking for some audio cables and stumbled upon this in the computer cables isle. Snatched em all up.

New-Old-Stock SCSI Ultra-320 cables. Sadly no built in terminators, but still. I have some scsi equipment still around I could use these for.

3.19 USD? What a rip off!!!

Honestly, it is bothering me a bit the total isnt $3.20

YOU HAD ONE F-ING JOB!

Tyan S1753 ATX Socket 7 board to free my currently only AT case for another build.. The P166MMX build has now moved into an Elan Vital T10 and will become a Win98/OS2Warp4 dual boot.

UMC 8498F U5SX 486-33 Motherboard for the now available AT case for an MS-DOS6.22/OS2Warp3 dual boot.

Jackpot!

Bought some VLB hardware today:
- ASUS VL/I-486SV2GX4 - working with 1024kb cache and AMD DX2-80 installed;
- ADAPTEC AVA-2825 VLB IDE SCSI controller;
- HERCULES VL Stingray video card;
- AZTECH NX II soundcard

Paid 50 USD equiv in total.

I bought an "E6700 2.66 RUBBER SHEET"

I managed to purchase 3 older IBM Thinkpads: Two of the machines are 760EL pentium units, one with a DSTN screen and one with a TFT screen both with CD Drives, while the other unit is a 365X with a CD Drive (but unfortunately another DSTN screen). They also came with external floppy and Ultrabay floppy drives to swap with the CD Drive on the 760's. The memory is maxed out on all of these units and the batteries surprisingly work as well.

I plan to use the 760 DSTN unit for spare parts for the TFT Unit (which works fine) as well a 755CD I managed to find awhile back. I want to replace the screen on the 365X but I due to the lack of availability I have a feeling I'll be waiting a while. In the meantime I plan to use the 365X Keyboard for another machine that needs one.

. I actually have a 760es on hand with a toasted motherboard 😒 125mhz Pentium, 32mb of ram and a Zip100 drive. If you were local id offer it to ya for free pickup 😊

Rhuwyn wrote:

Just picked up a pair of ATX socket 7 motherboards with unknown K6 CPUs and some RAM. It's about 30 miles from me and arranged local pickup and offered him 35 USD and he went for it.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/182493453074?

Damn, most of the time, MS-5169 are to be sold at very high price on ebay.
Fingers crossed for you 😀

Glitter wrote:

Rhuwyn wrote:

Just picked up a pair of ATX socket 7 motherboards with unknown K6 CPUs and some RAM. It's about 30 miles from me and arranged local pickup and offered him 35 USD and he went for it.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/182493453074?

Damn, most of the time, MS-5169 are to be sold at very high price on ebay.
Fingers crossed for you 😀

Yep, recognised it too as a msi ms-5169. I have one laying here at home can you PLEASE tell me which part it is next to the ramslots, bolted to the big black heatsink?
I got this board from a recycler and that part is broken off (because of the alu....). I would really like to fix it but i don't know the part number...

Thanx!

got in another 2 pieces today

the Asus version of Radeon 9800 XT

a new cooler for my soon to be hot CPU

the Thermaltake Volcano 12 including original fan and back control panel and front control panel.
after hearing the fan (it sure puts out enough noise, which is an understatement at max RPM), I removed it and ordered a Arctic F12 120mm fan with higher CFM.

Also got in 2 cheap noctuas because they were cheap and still nearly new.
1 is for replacing the hiper 120mm fan, which I might add was a **** to recap and now hate hiper for reversing the fan connectors on the internal fan connector. fortunally I still had spare cable which I adapted to the reversed connectors....

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got in another 2 pieces today

the Asus version of Radeon 9800 XT

a new cooler for my soon to be hot CPU

the Thermaltake Volcano 12 including original fan and back control panel and front control panel.
after hearing the fan (it sure puts out enough noise, which is an understatement at max RPM), I removed it and ordered a Arctic F12 120mm fan with higher CFM.

Also got in 2 cheap noctuas because they were cheap and still nearly new.
1 is for replacing the hiper 120mm fan, which I might add was a **** to recap and now hate hiper for reversing the fan connectors on the internal fan connector. fortunally I still had spare cable which I adapted to the reversed connectors....

I like the Asus version of that card. I saw it listed today and was in doubt as i have several Ati cards and i never really use them... Good buy, that card doesn't come along often.

Haven't had any spare cash to buy things lately but I manage to fit in a small little purchase for a total of 9 USD.

Trident (HIS?) Blade3D 9880 Turbo 4MB AGP 2x

Interesting little card. I actually didn't know that a turbo version existed. It appears to be clocked roughly 20mhz higher than the normal 9880. The normal version was competitive against the Matrox G200. I halfway suspect this may in fact be 8MB as the seller mentioned 4MB was a guess based on the memory chip configuration and 4MB would have been a bit low for the 9880, much less a turbo version.

I like the Asus version of that card. I saw it listed today and was in doubt as i have several Ati cards and i never really use them... Good buy, that card doesn't come along often.

The 9000 series and 3d prophet are nostalgic to me so that's why I bought this one, the same card is currently being sold on ebay aswell in the US (current bid being $9,80).
This project is the cheapest one I made until now but hell it's the most frustating one to get running properly (recapping a psu, non functioning gpu, ram dimm broken, heatsink modifications) grew up with athlons which is the worse part.

Found a Quickshot Sound Machine (OEM version of Sound Blaster 2.0 - CT1350A) for $15 on eBay.

Edit: Actually not sure of which revision of Sound Blaster 2.0 it is.

The card I bought has the CT1366 chip (works with the CMS GAL upgrade), and I am finding pictures of both the CT1350A and the CT1350B with a CT1366A chip on it.

I bought these 23 dual core CPUs.

This was not a gold scrap lot, the CPUs were sold as working! "From working computers" to be exact, most computers worked at some point I guess. 😁 I do not see preconceptions and prejudices as good things but when I got the real name of the seller I felt that I had to ask him to "Package the CPUs well so they can not get damaged during shipping". I kind of wonder how they would have been packaged if I did not wite that...

The package with CPUs, awesome packaging skills...

From working computers... This E6400 CPU looks like it has seen its prime to say the least...

I bought the CPUs on the Swedish Ebay clone Tradera where every complaint results in getting negative feedback as a buyer so I will bite my lip. Out of the 23 CPUs 3 looked broken beyond repair including the E6400 above, a few others looked okey but had lost components during shipping and I killed one of them for sure by beeing a bit careless when reflowing the lost component back in place. Some others I think I actually managed to fix and with luck the rest of the CPUs that surprisingly enough look more or less undamaged are working.

In the end I got these CPUs that I think will work, at least most of them.

1x E8300
4x E8400,
1x E8500,
1x E7300
1x E6850,
1x E6750
1x E6600
2x E4700 <--- Really useful for upgrading some old computers that only supports 800 MHz FSB and first generation Core 2.
2x E4500
5x E6550

The price was ~26 euro + 7 euro shipping so I paid about 1.7 euro each for the 19 "probably working" CPUs which is totally fine. If sellers could learn the "not beeing a f***ing moron skill" I would be even happier.

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I bought these 23 dual core CPUs.

This was not a gold scrap lot, the CPUs were sold as working! "From working computers" to be exact, most computers worked at some point I guess. 😁 I do not see preconceptions and prejudices as good things but when I got the real name of the seller I felt that I had to ask him to "Package the CPUs well so they can not get damaged during shipping". I kind of wonder how they would have been packaged if I did not wite that...

The package with CPUs, awesome packaging skills...

Packed well... NOOOOOT.jpg

From working computers... This E6400 CPU looks like it has seen its prime to say the least...

Core 2 Duo E6400 SL9T9.jpg

Core 2 Duo E6400 SL9T9 back.jpg

I bought the CPUs on the Swedish Ebay clone Tradera where every complaint results in getting negative feedback as a buyer so I will bite my lip. Out of the 23 CPUs 3 looked broken beyond repair including the E6400 above, a few others looked okey but had lost components during shipping and I killed one of them for sure by beeing a bit careless when reflowing the lost component back in place. Some others I think I actually managed to fix and with luck the rest of the CPUs that surprisingly enough look more or less undamaged are working.

In the end I got these CPUs that I think will work, at least most of them.

1x E8300
4x E8400,
1x E8500,
1x E7300
1x E6850,
1x E6750
1x E6600
2x E4700 <--- Really useful for upgrading some old computers that only supports 800 MHz FSB and first generation Core 2.
2x E4500
5x E6550

The price was ~26 euro + 7 euro shipping so I paid about 1.7 euro each for the 19 "probably working" CPUs which is totally fine. If sellers could learn the "not beeing a f***ing moron skill" I would be even happier.

Those E8xxx CPUs are also 3rd and 2nd fastest Core2 Duals available. Perfectly usable today for office and media tasks. I'm actually stuck using an E8400 in my main for various reasons atm and with a few tweaks it has enough horsepower to propel Fallout 4 at 30-45 FPS. So light gaming might also be OK in a last ditch effort sort of way.