stuvize wrote:

brostenen is right the market will shift XP era stuff is already becoming valuable, example a year ago non OEM 7900GTXs were abundant $20.00 and under I bought a new unopened BFG 7900GTX OC for $25.00 shipped now there is very few non OEM versions available cheapest one is $25 shipped for a used card and when the supply dries up on anything high prices follow. There does seem to be a point when people lose interest in certain hardware about two years ago I watched over the course of several months multiple M919 motherboards with cache module go for between $200-$300, 100mhz CX5x86s for $80-$100, SBpro 2 cards CT1600 $60-$80 if you could even find one, I see a lot of 486 era hardware selling for less now than 2 or 3 years ago. It's too bad about the high prices of Voodoo 4 and 5 cards 🤣 maybe if the military didn't use so many VSA-100 chips there would have been more Voodoo 5500s

Lol I have a CT1600 on my sales thread for a fraction of that price... I saw the overly inflated CT1600 prices on ebay but I couldn't bring myself to post such a price with a straight face.

Can we -PLEASE- get back on topic here people? I want to see retro stuff y'all are buying out there, not all this drama about collectors. That's just no fun to anyone.. go start your own thread and converse about it over there.

I picked up 3 SB16's and a RISE mp6 pr266

ODwilly wrote:

I picked up 3 SB16's and a RISE mp6 pr266

Excellent find buddy!!! This is pretty much the last CPU I'm after as well as a IDT Winchip 2.
Let us know how you get along with it, really interesting chip 😀
Best,
Chris

Found a nice Pentium VLB board Shuttle HOT-503 in a scrap lot. Needed some minor repairs, but now it's perfectly working 😀

Also got a 133 MHz Socket 4 Overdrive for 10 bucks (without the original heatsink unfortunately)

stuvize wrote:

the market will shift XP era stuff is already becoming valuable

Got another GTX285 for various Windows XP projects / videos I've got planned. I will certainly start promoting building dedicated Windows XP gaming machines > watch the prices go up 🤣

If you want the best (GTX285 for example) you will always pay premium. But just go with something a bit lower (like 7900 GT instead of 7900 GTX) and prices are much better. There are simply a lot more mainstream products out than enthusiast cards.

With the newer cards I notice that the top models (e.g. GTX 285) are extremely competitive compared to later mainstream card. For example a Radeon 6770 or GTX 460.

Artex wrote:

subhuman@xgtx wrote:

By the way, Artex, have you ever considered opening a retro museum with all the glorious mint/sealed stuff you own? 🤣

Hah - I've thought about doing something. The problem is that this is kind of a niche hobby. If all the VOGONS members lived locally here, then maybe it would make more sense.

Started work on a proposal for a museum in the form of a website...
It's just sketches for the moment. Starting a tread for this, keep hanging on fellow members.
I will post it in order for someone to take over and build it when my basic outlines are done.
(keep in mind that they are completely basic)

My education is ASP.NET framework 4.0 using C# and MS-SQL 2008 r2.
In wich I have done no programming since 2013.

We go PHP or ASP.NET. I just do not know PHP. I have no place to host.

My server speaks ASP. But not SQL.

Got a PowerColor EvilKing Voodoo 4 4500 today:

Got a SC-7 in today: awesome little module. 😀

It is also excellent because it also has an audio in: way better quality than routing the MIDI through the SB16.

A friend of mine rescued this system and said that I needed to pick it up before he scrapped it this morning. I've not had a chance to power it up, but it appears to be a very well built server of some sort.

It's a dual CPU (Pentium III / 933) with two SCSI 18GB hard drives. Can't seem to find any specs or model number silkscreened on the motherboard. Those two longer slots having me scratching my head.

IIRC, Windows 98 won't see the two CPUs, I already have an XP machine, so I'm thinking either Windows NT or Windows 2000. Any recommendations?

Paid for this today.

Oldbitcollector wrote:

A friend of mine rescued this system and said that I needed to pick it up before he scrapped it this morning. I've not had a chance to power it up, but it appears to be a very well built server of some sort.

It's a dual CPU (Pentium III / 933) with two SCSI 18GB hard drives. Can't seem to find any specs or model number silkscreened on the motherboard. Those two longer slots having me scratching my head.

IIRC, Windows 98 won't see the two CPUs, I already have an XP machine, so I'm thinking either Windows NT or Windows 2000. Any recommendations?

Nice save! Those long slots are pci-x slots, useful for hard drive RAID controllers, some video cards, stuff like that. Windows 2k pro is a good choice for an OS, you retain alot of backwards compatibility with 9x games but get to benefit from SMP and being able to use more ram.

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Paid for this today.

this is an 8bit SB clone, right?

^Sound Blaster 2.0 clone. Has the CMS upgrade sockets and all. I wonder if that intel microcontroller gives the 2.01 Creative DSP capability though. If not it's more like a Sound Blaster 1.5/2.0 hybrid.

keropi wrote:

this is an 8bit SB clone, right?

I think it is just SB-1.0 though I actually have no clue on who made this.
My best bet, is that it is an Aztech, because of the PCB colors and that label with numbers, close to the ISA socket.

carlostex wrote:

^Sound Blaster 2.0 clone. Has the CMS upgrade sockets and all. I wonder if that intel microcontroller gives the 2.01 Creative DSP capability though. If not it's more like a Sound Blaster 1.5/2.0 hybrid.

Perhaps. Do not know.
This card is heading for my Unisys PW/2-300 machine. I am having an 16bit IDE controller comming my way too.
And I bought a ET3000 in a bundle... So yeah... Will be a nice little 286 machine after all.

kanecvr wrote:

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Got a PowerColor EvilKing Voodoo 4 4500 today:

Sweet.... Finally you got one of the higher performing Voodoo's. Congrat's

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stuvize wrote:

the market will shift XP era stuff is already becoming valuable

Got another GTX285 for various Windows XP projects / videos I've got planned. I will certainly start promoting building dedicated Windows XP gaming machines > watch the prices go up 🤣

If you want the best (GTX285 for example) you will always pay premium. But just go with something a bit lower (like 7900 GT instead of 7900 GTX) and prices are much better. There are simply a lot more mainstream products out than enthusiast cards.

With the newer cards I notice that the top models (e.g. GTX 285) are extremely competitive compared to later mainstream card. For example a Radeon 6770 or GTX 460.

GTX 295's are already commonly seen on ebay for $50 - $60 shipped. Probably the best option for the 200 series.

I managed to score my 3rd "exotic" EVGA GTX-470 FTW water-cooled card for $50 just last month. I remember when those were $465 new just a few years ago back in 2011.

Oldbitcollector wrote:

A friend of mine rescued this system and said that I needed to pick it up before he scrapped it this morning. I've not had a chance to power it up, but it appears to be a very well built server of some sort.

It's a dual CPU (Pentium III / 933) with two SCSI 18GB hard drives. Can't seem to find any specs or model number silkscreened on the motherboard. Those two longer slots having me scratching my head.

IIRC, Windows 98 won't see the two CPUs, I already have an XP machine, so I'm thinking either Windows NT or Windows 2000. Any recommendations?

It's most likely an Asus CUS-DLS. The longer slots are for pci-x cards. They offer higher bandwidth than standard pci. Use them for gigabit ethernet and u320 scsi.

Great score! !

It's (the dual P3 board) got an ATI Rage something onboard for what I can make out.
The colour does not really seem to fit into Asus P3-era, as far as I remember.
I could be wrong though.