ASUS P5K/EPU Socket 775 SLI motherboard with a C2D 8200 2.66GHz. My first SLI/XFire capable board!

And a Radeon 3870 from Powercolor.
Some heartless person tried to tear off the waifu from the cooler 🤣

I also just realized that I own at least one ATI card for every generation from the first rage up until the DX11 era

that Powercolor screams mid-2000s

I just received an HP Vectra N2 4/66 with 24 MB RAM in excellent condition for a very good price. Searched on eBay high and low for a Vectra N-Series (would've preferred a 386 but beggars can't be choosers). Finally found one on another platform. 😀

I want to see its insides. Looks nice so far.

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love that little heatsink fan!

Now you just gotta find one of those 3.5" CD ROM drives 😁

Plopped a bid on (and won) a cute little Pentium III system that happened to come with its original installation CDs (a hard-to-find-complete foreign version of Windows). P3 1 GHz, 128 Mb RAM, no hard disk, micro-ATX motherboard in a low profile case (might have to do something about that...).

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I just received an HP Vectra N2 4/66 with 24 MB RAM in excellent condition for a very good price. Searched on eBay high and low […]
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I just received an HP Vectra N2 4/66 with 24 MB RAM in excellent condition for a very good price. Searched on eBay high and low for a Vectra N-Series (would've preferred a 386 but beggars can't be choosers). Finally found one on another platform. 😀

NICE FIND"
I got one that i paid 10 bucks, that looks identical but different model
vectra 486/50N (its not N2 like yours, the motherboard has a lot of differences also.
the cpu does not come with a heatsink, just the fan.

it has 500k video memory, and has some zip memory slots available, i belive t hey are called like that

i added a SB16 and i tried doom1 and its fine, im able to play it nicely.

the battery must be dead like mine, you can buy a battery holder and use 3AAA normal alkaline batteries in it.

can i ask you to take pictures of the HDD tray? mine came without it and the HDD loose.

Recent personal purchases are a couple of AGP cards, both of which I was able to obtain at a reasonable price:

X850XT/X800XT

And for something from an earlier era and a little different, a NOS 2x Sony interface CD. I have a feeling this might be the first non-IDE/SCSI/SATA optical drive I've owned.

A non-Sony branded Sony interface drive? That's something I've never seen before.

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I just received an HP Vectra N2 4/66 with 24 MB RAM in excellent condition for a very good price. Searched on eBay high and low […]
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I just received an HP Vectra N2 4/66 with 24 MB RAM in excellent condition for a very good price. Searched on eBay high and low for a Vectra N-Series (would've preferred a 386 but beggars can't be choosers). Finally found one on another platform. 😀

NICE FIND"
I got one that i paid 10 bucks, that looks identical but different model
vectra 486/50N (its not N2 like yours, the motherboard has a lot of differences also.
the cpu does not come with a heatsink, just the fan.

it has 500k video memory, and has some zip memory slots available, i belive t hey are called like that

i added a SB16 and i tried doom1 and its fine, im able to play it nicely.

the battery must be dead like mine, you can buy a battery holder and use 3AAA normal alkaline batteries in it.

can i ask you to take pictures of the HDD tray? mine came without it and the HDD loose.

Should we really be shoving alkaline batteries into systems? They can be insanely destructive if they leak.

still waiting for my work to finally finish up programming our final installation on scada from I2CX, so I can finally take all Pentium II, Celerons and Pentium III compaqs home (5 or 6).
sometime ago I salvaged a few IDE cables from those and the pinout was custom, they were intended for cable management on a few systems but ended having to mod my own IDE cables 😒

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

Should we really be shoving alkaline batteries into systems? They can be insanely destructive if they leak.

They typically are used in a plastic enclosure that does a pretty good job containing the carnage.

I actually pulled a 4 AA battery holder from a 386 that I acquired - the batteries were all leaking, and the holder was in terrible shape. 386 was fine.

Mounting points for those guys are also important. If you mount in a tower, I like to stick it to the bottom at the front of the case. That way you can sit the case upright or either way on its side, and gravity will direct any potential leakage away from the mobo should the enclosure be compromised.

Just purchased another Guillemot Maxi Studio ISIS setup for a good price.

The seller had just listed the external box and cables. The listing sounded like it was from an old machine that he had so I asked about the computer it was used in.

He replied and said he still had it but was about to donate it. 😲

We messaged back and forth a few times and after verifying that the cards that went with the external unit were the ones that were i the computer, I have purchased the whole setup...

Dodged a huge bullet of having a very rare setup separated.

Even comes with a folder of CDs, including at least one of the original install CDs. I really hope the whole set of original CDs is included as the only I have been able to find for download was the second one.

So giddy right now.

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Thanks for replies. Memories on ET6100 are the same as on ET6000... what funny is that ET6000 is little faster than ET6100 in do […]
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Thanks for replies. Memories on ET6100 are the same as on ET6000... what funny is that ET6000 is little faster than ET6100 in doom... I thought 6100 is faster.
Both ET6100 I have are "dark"... compareing to S3 cards I own, Brightnes on Tsengs ET6100 issignificantly lower. Can I do something about it? (I mean bios or some DOS software)... I only use them in DOS.

EDIT:
I have two chips with the same numer 908 but they doesn't work. If I place them in card speedsys shows still 2mb... But fortunately I will have two more "spare" chips and one of my ET6100 has 4 sockets - so I'll try to change all 4 od tchem if numbers will fit.

Ive got these 2 chips if you want them pulled from a 4meg ET6000, 1meg each.

Bit hard to read.

OKI Japan
M519909
6475202

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ASUS P5K/EPU Socket 775 SLI motherboard with a C2D 8200 2.66GHz. My first SLI/XFire capable board! […]
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ASUS P5K/EPU Socket 775 SLI motherboard with a C2D 8200 2.66GHz. My first SLI/XFire capable board!

And a Radeon 3870 from Powercolor.
Some heartless person tried to tear off the waifu from the cooler 🤣

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I also just realized that I own at least one ATI card for every generation from the first rage up until the DX11 era

You probably already know this, but the board is missing a mosfet/vrm heatsink

blurks wrote:

I just received an HP Vectra N2 4/66 with 24 MB RAM in excellent condition for a very good price. Searched on eBay high and low for a Vectra N-Series (would've preferred a 386 but beggars can't be choosers). Finally found one on another platform. 😀

Thats a very nice clean looking system.

Bought this kludgetastic computer off of EBay, primarily for the case. Probably paid too much, but I have an Intel PR440fx board with dual P2 overdrives that needs an ATX case that is period accurate, and this large tower looks like it will fit the bill! At least, it looks period accurate -- I hope it's not one of those old-looking modern cases. It already has in it a Supermicro P4DC6 board (P4-era Xeon) with what appears to be 2 processors. Then it's got what looks like a Number 9 PCI graphics card from the mid-90's! There's no telling what's going on with this one -- I look forward to it coming in the mail!

They broke "the rule" servers have to have ATI Mach 64 graphics period.