Bought this lot for $5 total (Seller's photo):

Bought it mostly because I needed an ISA VGA.. The bottom card appears to be a Triden T9000 TVGA which I guess will do fine in my UMC 486S 33 system. The top card, I need for a Pentium 133 system. The middle card, I didn't really need as I already have 2 ESS ISA sound cards, but the only Crystal card I have is a PCI so what the hell. Also, never saw a card like this, looks like it's not a full 16-bit ISA card?

Just received this, a very nice socket 462 motherboard, Abit AN7 Guru, like new in box. Not tested yet 😊, but for 5€ couldn't pass.

JLPedro wrote:

Just received this, a very nice socket 462 motherboard, Abit AN7 Guru, like new in box. Not tested yet 😊, but for 5€ couldn't pass.

I have the same board with a tbred 1700+ 😀

Just bought new clone to my collection.
Quick transaction.

Have to chceck if it is simmilar or the same to one of clones I allready have.

(sellers photo)

Where do you find all of those?!

I got a package today!

For f**k's sake! How about not wrapping nice hardware in bubble wrap? I really wish sellers could package items better, especially when it's an Asus NCCH-DL motherboard that I bought for $90!

One of the motherboards VRM heatsinks looked like the Leaning Tower of Pisa and I did not find any Xeon Nocona heat sinks that clerared the caps around the sockets. Still I needed this board tested so I just took two Prestonia heatsinks and removed them from their mounting kit.

The first test with one CPU with a heatsink just placed on top of the CPU without any cooling paste or mounting kit. It was a success and I let the board run for half an hour just to see that it would not suddenly die like the Asus NCCH-DL motherboards you read about here on Vogons...

The second test with two CPUs, now using the VRM circuit with the abused leaning VRM heatsink... another success!

The BIOS. CPU number 1 was not this hot during the first test, I probably did a worse job placing the heatsink on top of the CPU this time around.

Ebay do have some nice Nocona heatsinks but the prices seem to start at about 70 euro shipped for two really good ones and perhaps half of that for two crappy ones... Not really acceptable so I bought a full dual socket 604 tower with two 3.6 GHz Nocona CPUs for 50 euro shipped. With luck this HP systems crappy coolers will fit the Asus board, if not well 50 euro is not much for a complete socket 604 system with 3.6 GHz CPUs as the price included shipping from the UK to Sweden...

It at least looks like these heat sinks will fit the Asus NCCH-DL. The heat sinks look like the kind that screws directly into the motherboard tray but I can handle a drill or just shorten the feet. As I work at a mechanical workshop making small mods is not that much of a hassle, in time I will probably make mounts for two Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme.

https://www.amazon.com/HP-xw6200-xw8200-Heats … y/dp/B000EM8WTK

hard1k wrote:

Where do you find all of those?!

As I told once... first - I'm more than lucky, second - I think I have quite good searching skills, third - I love gravis cards 😀 ... but this time it was a different case... it just apeared on one of local portals and I bought it after short "negitiations"...

And it seems to be different than one very similar clone I have... thire is no memory slot on it and there are some dpis on left top corner which are no on mine... also serial numer is different mine is 00685 or something and this one is 06000 like so it must be later revision...

Hi, my first post here 😀

Just arrived today, $9:

sp33dyS wrote:

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Hi, my first post here 😀

Just arrived today, $9:

My my.. What a nice.... Stick.. you have there.. 😲

This $8 lot arrived today:

Trident TVGA900 ISA. Finally an ISA VGA for my U5SX33 build. Can't tell whether it's 512KB or 1MB but its probably the former which should be enough for pre-92 DOS gaming.

S3 Trio V64+ PCI. I was out of PCI cards for my P1 board. Appears to have had some soldering repair on the upper right memory chip probably a socket issue. I hope it will work fine. EDIT: The two bottom right caps have leaked, the board and connectors have corrosion - will have them removed and replaced, hopefully it will work fine after that..

Crystal CX4235-X03 ISA sound card. No idea if its even a good chipset or how it compares to SB16 and ESS cards.

Wile not quite retro, but not quite modern ether I bought a BFG 2gb 285 with a danger den 285 water block.

I also found a complete intellivision II with PC/keyboard attachment and a atari 7800. 😎

I got some Socket 604 Xeon CPUs from the UK today.

This is not how you package and ship CPUs with fragile pins! Socket 603/604 pins are as bad as the Socket 478 ones but there are even more of them. Out of 5 CPUs all had bent pins, most a few one alot luckily none was totally unsalvageable but getting these CPUs into the socket the first time will be a challange.

There is absolutely no padding at all protecting the CPU pins...

Decided to use Phils Electromyne promo code and got myself a 1400MHz Athlon. Too bad it's not gonna get any use until I do some PSU recapping.

Got a nice pile of ISA cards today, including three VGA cards (TVGA9000, Chips, Cirrus Logic), two AWE64, and an ALS100+ based sound card with external OPL3 (wtf? The Plus should have that one integrated, no?)

Finally the dream come true,i'm now owner of ESI JULI@
Catched this one for bit less then 18$

Bought a brand new never used 486 cpu cooler.

@rein_ein

What sorcery is this?

During a cross-country trip, I stopped in a little computer shop. They happened to have a big box of old expansion cards that they let me pick through. Came away with these 4 for $20 US. Included are a voodoo3 3000 (D?) AGP, a Creative CT6960 GEFORCE 256 SDR missing a fan, an Asus V3800/32M Riva TNT2, and a Yamaha Xwave based PCI card.

Missing is the Matrox G200 that I left lying in the shelf...

luckybob wrote:

@rein_ein

What sorcery is this?

It's a professional sound card which can transform to use 1/4" TRS or RCA jacks.
Based on VIA Envy24HT-S DSP and AKM AK4358 DAC

I already have almost similar(Envy24HT/Wolfson WM8770) card, but always since i saw i wanted this one
...and also like a lot how it looks 😀

rein_ein wrote:

It's a professional sound card which can transform to use 1/4" TRS or RCA jacks.

Good grief, these are being sold to this time in my country. And the price is 200$!