appiah4 wrote:

Finally it arrived. This is a board I've been looking for for a long time now, but I finally have it..
MSI KT3 Ultra2

Beautiful. Congrats 😎

and another one, MATROX Ultima Plus... yeah I know, it's not VLB and the ram isn't fully populated, but still a nice addition to my collection of MATROX cards ^^

imi wrote:

and another one, MATROX Ultima Plus... yeah I know, it's not VLB and the ram isn't fully populated, but still a nice addition to my collection of MATROX cards ^^

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Have one as well. Early PCI card.

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

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Finally it arrived. This is a board I've been looking for for a long time now, but I finally have it..

MSI KT3 Ultra2

Three swollen 1000uF 6.3v Teapo caps need to be replaced (I would replace all of them but lazy). Also a DDR clip is missing but I doubt that would be a proplem for use.

In your shoes, I'd only be using one slot anyway. I've got lots of 512MB DDR DIMMs and Win98 doesn't really need more.

$12 on Ebay sold as not working --- DTK PIM-TB10-Z, has a Siemens 8088-1-P 10MHz installed.

Now I can move forward with my desktop size XT10 build in the Swan XT10 case I bought a while back. 😁

liqmat wrote:

Have one as well. Early PCI card.

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

yup, it's very nice ^^
unfortunately 256K x 8 RAM seems to be more uncommon, pretty much all of my cards with spare modules seem to have 256K x 16.

Couple recent gets for me:

I thought I missed out on the run of these cheap(ish) K6-2+/550s on The Big Auction Site, but the seller posted a few more after I made some sales to buff up my "random gadget" fund, so I bit. This is arguably the fastest thing you can put in a Super Socket 7 board (and one of the last, best chips in my personal favorite retro CPU line), so it's nice to have.

I haven't tested it yet, but it looks to be in excellent condition top & bottom. The seller shipped it well packaged in a box, so no complaints there. Weirdly, despite the auction saying it would ship from China, the shipment seems to have originated in Mississauga, Ontario and got to me in just over a week. So either the seller has enough of these to be warehousing them in multiple locations, or they're using some kind of really fast freight forwarder. I've seen both of those scenarios before, but never for a low-volume, out-of-production used part like this.

The other thing I picked up was my own Matrox G200 Quad, inspired by imi's pickups a couple pages ago. Mine even has the TV tuner option which I can actually use (for old 8-bit PCs and game consoles with RF output. 😀 ) Unfortunately it turned out to be a bit of a repair project, but I got it cheap enough it's worth trying to fix.

If you think these two items could maybe be used together in some sort of wacky project build, well, you're not wrong.

nice :3

the big auction site is kind sometimes ^^

HP Vectra VL-800 with 1.8ghz Pentium-4
One of the last of the Vectra line models.

Turbo -> wrote:

Horun wrote:

A NOS 1993 CenDyne CDR

You mean year 2003, not 1993?

Yeah, sorry ! Was messing with a diff cdrom when I posted that and had 1993 stuck in my brain. Here is the one was so mesmerized by but the seller could not find the ATA BUS card it went with so guess am screwed cause it only works with the original adapter AFAIK.
A 1993 2x CDAT-300i cdrom (no man date on drive but latest chips on circuit boards are 4193).

imi wrote:

it's a CDROM changer for a single 5.25" slot, I was actually watching a nakamichi audio CD palyer too, but the price quickly surpassed what I was willing to pay

Really Nice ! Naka made some good stuff.

wiretap wrote:

$12 on Ebay sold as not working --- DTK PIM-TB10-Z, has a Siemens 8088-1-P 10MHz installed.

WOW great price and it seems to work 🤣

Was in a local tech repair shop yesterday (mainly laptops, mobiles & tablets) when I spotted a boxed motherboard on the clearance shelf, which turned out to be a tatty but NIB ASRock P4i945GC. Owner said it had been a part trade-in for some old repair job, though he had little use for it . When I said I'd take it he asked if I'd be interested in the other board it came with which turned out to be another (bare) P4i945GC but with a processor, which is when things got interesting, when I noticed the processor in question was a 64 bit 3.4GHz P4 Prescott (SL7Q8). Made him a low-ball offer for the pair which he was happy with - result!

So onto the haul

Bare board was very dusty, and cpu still had some caked TIM at the edges, but they've both cleaned up well

Think I have another board the cpu might work with, a Biostar G31-M4, but this may be pushing its TDP a bit too far.

Did an upgrade that appears to take about 24 ish years.

Bought two of these back in the days when hype was so great to ignore.
My parent dumped one, and I managed to keep another.

Its box, diskettes, & manual are all gone, but the card and cd have survived.
Looked out for a suitable memory chip and all the matching NEC memory sellers in eBay said theirs were genuine NOS. LMAO.

Ordered a cheap Siemens one from a german seller. (Here's the specsheet. HYB514171BJ-70)
My order arrived in a nice, clean tray.
Cleaned the socket with IPA, seated the chip, and booted my rig to check.

I am all good to go back to 1995, I suppose.

Clean the card a bit while you're at it too, that's a lot of dust..

I need a GUS ACE in my collection. Prices for a GUS card alone is too expensive and I wish they made a laptop PC Card, but, they targeted desktop computers.

Bought the following today:
2x 200GB Maxtor HDDs (NIB) for $19.99 +tax a piece ($39.98 + tax)
2x Ethernet cables ($1 a piece)
IBM ThinkPad 380D with a TFT Active Matrix display for $10 that needs TLC, CD-ROM/FDD combo, lots of screws, and a TFT display since I put that display on my first ThinkPad 380D laptop.

4th time I've seen and bought new IDE HDDs: 60GB Maxtor (when they bought out Quantum in 2001, in my Socket 370 system), 80GB Western Digital (in my socket 370 system for backups), 120GB Maxtor (in my second 1.6b Original Xbox), and 2x 200GB Maxtor (which will be used for either data backups (NAS) or for the Original Xbox systems I might buy and restore in case I find more at thrift stores).

That P4i945GC w/SL7Q8 combination is puzzling, since they negate what the other part of the combo is good for (Northwood diehards who want PCI-e and DDR2, and people who want 64bit support on an AGP board 😉 ) I guess they got the CPU's cheap...

Got me one of these....

http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/Indivision_ECS_V2

gdjacobs wrote:

appiah4 wrote:

Finally it arrived. This is a board I've been looking for for a long time now, but I finally have it.. […]
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Finally it arrived. This is a board I've been looking for for a long time now, but I finally have it..

MSI KT3 Ultra2

Three swollen 1000uF 6.3v Teapo caps need to be replaced (I would replace all of them but lazy). Also a DDR clip is missing but I doubt that would be a proplem for use.

In your shoes, I'd only be using one slot anyway. I've got lots of 512MB DDR DIMMs and Win98 doesn't really need more.

Dose windows 98 even need that much?

dan86 wrote:

Dose windows 98 even need that much?

we're never going to need more than 640K 🤣

imi wrote:

we're never going to need more than 640K

Saw that coming. 🤣
But in all honesty aside form photoshop and a few old content creation apps that are better suited for NT/2K/XP, what can 98 run that needs more the n256mb of ram?