PcBytes wrote on 2025-01-16, 12:00:

Another win, a 400MHz K6-III+, at 22 euros.

You must be livin' on planet retro... Where the hell can you source all that stuff all the time????? 😉

ChrisK wrote on 2025-01-16, 14:16:

PcBytes wrote on 2025-01-16, 12:00:

Another win, a 400MHz K6-III+, at 22 euros.

You must be livin' on planet retro... Where the hell can you source all that stuff all the time????? 😉

Baywatch 🤣

jk, went on the bay looking for retro stuff. I had a hunch that my childhood PC case was going to be in the a Balkan country - most info I can find about it comes from Kyiv, Vilnius, Kazakhstan and a few Romanian posts as well.

The K6 was sourced from Italy.

I got this lot for 50e on ebay, untested. Good cosmetic condition. Stuff I wanted to test immediately like Tseng card, Tripledat, Audigies, work...

1ISA 8 bit
2
3SuperWave ETAIN MDA/Herc
4Tseng Labs ET3000AX VGA
5TEAC CD-55A controller
6Winbond COM controller
7
8ISA
9
10Aztech soundcard
11Creamware TripleDAT soundcard
12Domex 3181LE-97 SCSI
132xUMC FDD/HDD/COM controller
14Unidentified AD1848KP-based soundcard
152x Creative Vibra CT4180 soundcard
16
17PCI
18
19S3 Trio64V+ VGA 
20ATi Mach64 VGA 
21ATi 3D Rage2+DVD VGA 
22Matrox Millenium II VGA 
23Sigma RealMagic EM8300 Capture 
242x Creative Audigy2 soundcard
25Creative Audigy2 ZS soundcard
26Creative SB CT4670 soundcard
27Asus Xonar DG soundcard 
28IBM 21H5388 dual port multiprotocol controller 
29
30AGP 
31
32S3 Trio 3D/2X 8MB VGA AGP

zb10948 wrote on 2025-01-16, 14:51:

I got this lot for 50e on ebay, untested. Good cosmetic condition. Stuff I wanted to test immediately like Tseng card, Tripledat, Audigies, work...

Bargain if a few of them work.

RetroPCCupboard wrote on 2025-01-16, 15:34:

Bargain if a few of them work.

There are a lot of bent pins and in some cases physically damaged caps but sporadic and on the low-value items such as those generic ISA controllers.

The Sound Blasters seem to work and sold separately at 50% of avg. ebay price they'd make twice and more than the 'investment'...But I don't plan to sell, this is for stash.

The two 8 bit graphic cards are gems and they don't sell cheap today.
There are some rare items, Teac that is useless without accompanying CD-ROM drive, DAW soundcard that is useless without licence number and software, IBM controller in similar waters.

There's that capture card also. Not into that type of thing, but I guess it's a good pick. All in all, nice lot, some usable and unusable rare stuff and a lot of working common things for cheap.

And another win - ABIT BX133-RAID. Should fit nicely in the case I posted earlier.

PcBytes wrote on 2025-01-17, 07:57:

And another win - ABIT BX133-RAID. Should fit nicely in the case I posted earlier.

Truly a beast of a board, one I consider to be the pinnacle of the BX chipset.

It's been built off the BE6-II, of course it'll be top notch 😀

The BE6-II itself was a beast across all revisions (both HPT366 and 370) so it only makes sense that the 370 version breaks a lot of barriers. I wonder how well does it run with Tuallies tho.

PcBytes wrote on 2025-01-16, 14:34:

Baywatch 🤣
...

Nice one ! 🤣

I often have the suspicion I can't "see" all offers there. For example I have a seller in China I have bought from several times.
In my ...bay app to see his shop I have to set the US as my home country. Otherwise I can't find his items even if I know the exact item number a make a search for it. It just doesn't show up.
I don't know if this a known problem and what countries this affects, but the above is the only solution I know.

The other way round I'd like to exclude specific countries from my searches but that's also something that obviously can't be set in the settings...

PcBytes wrote on 2025-01-17, 07:57:

And another win - ABIT BX133-RAID. Should fit nicely in the case I posted earlier.

I had one back then. Really good board, had it a long time paired with a Pentium 3 1100 @ 1200MHz (no overvolting).
But its time came and I sold it eventually in adolescent carelessness. Why keep this old junk? Was young and needed the money... 🤬
I bought it used for maybe 30-40EUR as a replacement for my BE6-II I had before. The BE6-II was good, too, but was Slot-1 which after coming from a Pentium II I had going with some lower spec Pentium 3 in a slotket. Wasn't really happy with this somewhat wobbly solution so I exchanged it with the BX133. Later I upgraded to the bespoken PIII-1100 (which I still have).
Never seen one of these boards ever since. Must be 20 years now.

ChrisK wrote on 2025-01-17, 09:05:

Nice one ! lol […]
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PcBytes wrote on 2025-01-16, 14:34:

Baywatch 🤣
...

Nice one ! 🤣

I often have the suspicion I can't "see" all offers there. For example I have a seller in China I have bought from several times.
In my ...bay app to see his shop I have to set the US as my home country. Otherwise I can't find his items even if I know the exact item number a make a search for it. It just doesn't show up.
I don't know if this a known problem and what countries this affects, but the above is the only solution I know.

The other way round I'd like to exclude specific countries from my searches but that's also something that obviously can't be set in the settings...

Weird. I have Romania set and I can see all countries - China, US, Japan, you name it. Especially helps when I buy NTSC regions phat PS3s

PcBytes wrote on 2025-01-17, 08:50:

It's been built off the BE6-II, of course it'll be top notch 😀

The BE6-II itself was a beast across all revisions (both HPT366 and 370) so it only makes sense that the 370 version breaks a lot of barriers. I wonder how well does it run with Tuallies tho.

If you get one of the interposers from that Korean fella a Tually should work, might need to find a modded bios however.

I know it works with a Tulaeron 1.4 so it should work with a Tulaking 1.4s

PcBytes wrote on 2025-01-17, 10:24:

ChrisK wrote on 2025-01-17, 09:05:

Nice one ! lol […]
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PcBytes wrote on 2025-01-16, 14:34:

Baywatch 🤣
...

Nice one ! 🤣

I often have the suspicion I can't "see" all offers there. For example I have a seller in China I have bought from several times.
In my ...bay app to see his shop I have to set the US as my home country. Otherwise I can't find his items even if I know the exact item number a make a search for it. It just doesn't show up.
I don't know if this a known problem and what countries this affects, but the above is the only solution I know.

The other way round I'd like to exclude specific countries from my searches but that's also something that obviously can't be set in the settings...

Weird. I have Romania set and I can see all countries - China, US, Japan, you name it. Especially helps when I buy NTSC regions phat PS3s

Im in Australia and I can see everything, though there are some sales that I have to search eBay.co.uk or eBay.de to see them but I think that's because the seller has set that sale to not be visible outside of the UK or Germany.

Well, that may be a possible reason. If the seller has not set it to been seen from a specific country than this could explain my experiences. I should contact him the next time I intend to buy something.
Thanks!

ChrisK wrote on 2025-01-17, 11:43:

Well, that may be a possible reason. If the seller has not set it to been seen from a specific country than this could explain my experiences. I should contact him the next time I intend to buy something.
Thanks!

Some sellers do that because they dont want to do international postage or the costs for such are too high, but if you are on good terms with the seller then asking them may net a sale !

And another one. I'm on a streak 😀 - DFI Lanparty nF4 SLI-DR, with a few goodies thrown in 😀

I picked up an Igel 3/2 (3210CE) thin client from eBay UK recently. I've played around with a few other VIA C3 based boards, including an EPIA 800 before, but was attracted to this for having both an internal PSU (no external power brick) and being totally fanless.

This one has a VIA Eden 600Mhz, CN700 chipset, and 256Mb RAM. I replaced the 128Mb CF card with a 4Gb "rugged" one I had around. It only gets detected as ATA33 in the BIOS and write operations seem REALLY slow. The Sandra disk benchmark still put it way above all the reference spinning disks though. I'm wondering about swapping for a CF card with "x133" branding - which must mean ATA133?

Also planning to add a 44pin SD to IDE adapter, perhaps try and rig up an extension to use the now useless smart card security reader slot?

I've heard mixed reports about the CN700 chipset in Win98, but the 4in1 and S3 IGP drivers installed absolutely fine. The south bridge is the 8237R+, so doesn't have the Soundblaster emulation. The SATA features don't seem to be implemented at all on this board, which probably also helps with Win98 compatibility.

The EPIA 800 had felt snappy enough in Win98, but I'm surprised how slow and laggy this C7 600Mhz seems to feel. Hopefully improved with a faster CF card? Still, the total silence is refreshing!

Trashbytes wrote on 2025-01-17, 08:06:

PcBytes wrote on 2025-01-17, 07:57:

And another win - ABIT BX133-RAID. Should fit nicely in the case I posted earlier.

Truly a beast of a board, one I consider to be the pinnacle of the BX chipset.

not so beast. AGP2x, no support Tualatin default. Compared to this board, Chaintech 6AJAT and Gigabyte GA-6VTXE boards look much better. The only advantage here is the additional IDE channel, but who needs it?
Here is Universal AGP and ISA slot with Tualatin support.

One issue - VIA chipset, which in my experience weren't that stellar against BX or 815. Not to mention the 686 bug, something both BX and 815 didn't have.

As for 4x - Voodoo 3 won't benefit from it. Maybe a Geforce 2 but at that point I would ditch the ISA in favor of a PCI soundcard.

Finally, adapters to run Tualatin on a BX exist, and so far I've yet to hear of issues. I also already have a conpact and great mobo - MSI 815EM Pro v5.

I'm finally in the possession of an XT (clone) (again).

Philips P3105:
Intel 8088
Paradise EGA card
MiniScribe 8425 XT drive