tikoellner wrote:

I'm quite excited with my new motherboard that has just arrived to my office: […]
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I'm quite excited with my new motherboard that has just arrived to my office:

it's an A-Trend ATC-1452B with my favourite i486 DX2 66mhz onboard.

I'm overly impressed wit the quality I'm facing here. It seems more solid than my previous ZIDA 4DPS.

I'll use it with my new build with:

- IBM 5x86c-100 (blue heatsink!)
- 32mb RAM (4x8)
- SOUND BLASTER AWE32 C2760 + Yamaha daughterboard (just got one on my local auction service) + SB PRO 2
- CF card + 20gb Seagate Barracuda ATA IV
- Number Nine Motion 331 (S3 Trio 64 based) 4mb;
- This AT case (seems like early 90's to me. Love the switch on the side!): ;
- Chicony KB-5191 mechanical keyboard ('88)

Not sure about the CRT. IBM PS/2 would be prepared.
Hope you like it.

That is a lovely build. The only thing that isn't to my liking is the case. I like to go with cases that have a MHz display for 486 machines. Don't get me wrong, the case you have is awsome - i'd love to use something like this for a 286 or early 386 system.

tikoellner wrote:

I'm quite excited with my new motherboard that has just arrived to my office: […]
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I'm quite excited with my new motherboard that has just arrived to my office:

it's an A-Trend ATC-1452B with my favourite i486 DX2 66mhz onboard.

I'm overly impressed wit the quality I'm facing here. It seems more solid than my previous ZIDA 4DPS.

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I'll use it with my new build with:

- IBM 5x86c-100 (blue heatsink!)
- 32mb RAM (4x8)
- SOUND BLASTER AWE32 C2760 + Yamaha daughterboard (just got one on my local auction service) + SB PRO 2
- CF card + 20gb Seagate Barracuda ATA IV
- Number Nine Motion 331 (S3 Trio 64 based) 4mb;
- This AT case (seems like early 90's to me. Love the switch on the side!): <snip>;
- Chicony KB-5191 mechanical keyboard ('88)

Not sure about the CRT. IBM PS/2 would be prepared.
Hope you like it.

My only dislike is if you put a heatsink and/or fan on that cpu (I know most folks say they don't need it... I still cool all my 486's anyway) then all your pci slots are blocked by it. So no voodoo2 in windows 95 with a fast 133 chip on that board.

Also.. your 5.25" floppy drive is upside down 😁

kithylin wrote:

tikoellner wrote:

I'm quite excited with my new motherboard that has just arrived to my office: […]
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I'm quite excited with my new motherboard that has just arrived to my office:

it's an A-Trend ATC-1452B with my favourite i486 DX2 66mhz onboard.

I'm overly impressed wit the quality I'm facing here. It seems more solid than my previous ZIDA 4DPS.

<snip>
I'll use it with my new build with:

- IBM 5x86c-100 (blue heatsink!)
- 32mb RAM (4x8)
- SOUND BLASTER AWE32 C2760 + Yamaha daughterboard (just got one on my local auction service) + SB PRO 2
- CF card + 20gb Seagate Barracuda ATA IV
- Number Nine Motion 331 (S3 Trio 64 based) 4mb;
- This AT case (seems like early 90's to me. Love the switch on the side!): <snip>;
- Chicony KB-5191 mechanical keyboard ('88)

Not sure about the CRT. IBM PS/2 would be prepared.
Hope you like it.

My only dislike is if you put a heatsink and/or fan on that cpu (I know most folks say they don't need it... I still cool all my 486's anyway) then all your pci slots are blocked by it. So no voodoo2 in windows 95 with a fast 133 chip on that board.

Also.. your 5.25" floppy drive is upside down 😁

Hmm... what about liquid cooling? A water block isn't that high. 😀

tikoellner wrote:

I'm quite excited with my new motherboard that has just arrived to my office: […]
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I'm quite excited with my new motherboard that has just arrived to my office:

it's an A-Trend ATC-1452B with my favourite i486 DX2 66mhz onboard.

I'm overly impressed wit the quality I'm facing here. It seems more solid than my previous ZIDA 4DPS.

Very nice board, but what's with the option for an auxiliary molex connector? I've only seen once before, and that was on my old MSI AM2 board.

tikoellner wrote:

I'm quite excited with my new motherboard that has just arrived to my office: […]
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I'm quite excited with my new motherboard that has just arrived to my office:

it's an A-Trend ATC-1452B with my favourite i486 DX2 66mhz onboard.

I'm overly impressed wit the quality I'm facing here. It seems more solid than my previous ZIDA 4DPS.

I'll use it with my new build with:

- IBM 5x86c-100 (blue heatsink!)
- 32mb RAM (4x8)
- SOUND BLASTER AWE32 C2760 + Yamaha daughterboard (just got one on my local auction service) + SB PRO 2
- CF card + 20gb Seagate Barracuda ATA IV
- Number Nine Motion 331 (S3 Trio 64 based) 4mb;
- This AT case (seems like early 90's to me. Love the switch on the side!): ;
- Chicony KB-5191 mechanical keyboard ('88)

Not sure about the CRT. IBM PS/2 would be prepared.
Hope you like it.

The 486/Isa-stuff are cool. Congrat's on them. Yet the case... That is a total awesomme hotness.
I would really love a case like that for my 386 system (packed in antistatic bags and stored in a box as of now)
I might be able to source some kind of AT-Case in the near future. Hope it's a desktop.
That would really be awesomme, as I never owned such case in the early 90's.

@kithylin

I'm going to use IBM 5x86 as it looks supercool to me (apart from purely utilitarian reasons).

But I'm not planning even to install Win95 on my machine. Actually, I'm going to stick with pure dos 6.22, so I don't mind that Voodoo 2 would be hard to fit (still, one of the slots seems not to collide with the long cards)

And yes, I know that this IBM 5x86 CPU is an overkill considering my purposes (~1989-1995 games), but I just had to have it as I just love the looks. Still, maybe I'll leave my I486 DX2 on this build, as it seems more consequent.

BTW - how much guys do you feel it's OK to pay for Yamaha DB50XG? I have an offer here, but I'm not sure if its worth 60 USD.

tikoellner wrote:

BTW - how much guys do you feel it's OK to pay for Yamaha DB50XG? I have an offer here, but I'm not sure if its worth 60 USD.

I don't think you will find it cheaper, if it is working. (We are talking about a daughterboard right?)

I have already posted the sellers picture of this new old stock boxed Soundblaster 2.0 clone I bought but here are some better pictures.

The TechnoPlus AudioSound 8 "Sound Machine". There is a 3.5" install floppy hidden under the manual.

I picked up this NOS ASUS A8V-VM socket 939 board recently to go with the Athlon 64 3500+ I bought a while back. A handsome pair:

Skyscraper wrote:

The TechnoPlus AudioSound 8 "Sound Machine".

Cool - the ole' Quickshot Sound Machine. Never seen one boxed. Got the 1336A chip and no sockets eh? Not that the CMS upgrade would work with that chip..

brostenen wrote:

tikoellner wrote:

BTW - how much guys do you feel it's OK to pay for Yamaha DB50XG? I have an offer here, but I'm not sure if its worth 60 USD.

I don't think you will find it cheaper, if it is working. (We are talking about a daughterboard right?)

Agreed. $60 is a steal if you ask me for a genuine DB50XG daughterboard. The Roland and Yamaha DBs tend to be $$$.

Artex wrote:

Skyscraper wrote:

The TechnoPlus AudioSound 8 "Sound Machine".

Cool - the ole' Quickshot Sound Machine. Never seen one boxed. Got the 1336A chip and no sockets eh? Not that the CMS upgrade would work with that chip..

With the 1336A bus interface chip I guess it's better they did not install the sockets.

I need to check what bus interface chip my real Sound Blaster 2.0 has, it has sockets at least.

The seller was the one who broke the shrinkwrap to take pictures for Ebay but it's just as good, now I can use the card.

I taped the shrinkwrap back together for now though. 😁

Sweet pair, badmojo! I haven't heared anything good about the stock cooler though. What are your plans?

I may be getting a PCI one from a trade soon, but as I need a VL-BUS one too, I nabbed this;

If it doesn't work in its intended board I'll just find something else to install it in. I always liked SCSI and want to play with it before all the drives stop working or become cost prohibitive. All this CF card use has made me miss noisy hard drives more than I already did and there ain't nothing makes more noise than a SCSI Hard Drive.

No cache, but as it's going on a 42MHz system the BUS speed should make up for it a bit. It's not going to matter too much anyway.

RacoonRider wrote:

Sweet pair, badmojo! I haven't heared anything good about the stock cooler though. What are your plans?

Thanks mate! Yes it's very noisy and a pain in the bum to install if you have large components close to the clips, which this motherboard does.

But I have no plans for them to be honest - they'll be treated as collectors items until further notice.

Hey there!

I found a new house for my 5x86 from the previous post! Going to pick it up today (the seller lives "next door")

It's Colani Tower, which to me looks pretty mint on the photos. Check this out:

http://olx.pl/oferta/komputer-wieza-highscree … html#96ac33c040

The price is 10 USD for the case only, about 20 for the whole computer.

that is cool

This "little" guy arrived in the mail today (photo not mine). MSI PRO266TD Master-LR. Probably one of my luckiest deals ever, as the seller probably had 0 idea what the hell this board is. For 20 Euro in total, he even threw in a Celeron 1200 + Cooler as a bonus, I certainly can't complain. 🤣
Capacitors are TEAPO crap, although they all seem to be in great shape, where as all of the smaller, Lelon ones seem to be dead or in terrible condition. Gonna have a real field day recapping this board, but it is 100% worth it.

For those of you who don't know, this is one of the last Socket 370 boards. Based on the Apollo Pro 266T, tt has support for dual CPUs, all the way up to the Tualatin 1.4-S, DDR memory all the way up to 4GB ECC(!), 100MBit Ethernet and even RAID through a Promise ATA100 controller! And to top it all of, it's got an AGP Pro 4X slot, so it can properly run older cards.
Yes, this is a server board and I can't wait to recap this and install a couple of Tualatins and just go nuts.

F2bnp wrote:

Yes, this is a server board and I can't wait to recap this and install a couple of Tualatins and just go nuts.

That thing is mental. A true moment in time encompassing the very best of the end of the socket 370 era. Congrats!

HighTreason wrote:

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No cache, but as it's going on a 42MHz system the BUS speed should make up for it a bit. It's not going to matter too much anyway.

Caching boards are so hard to find anyway. Good luck with this - the presence of the >33MHz jumper is always a welcome sign on a VLB board! Would be interesting to see how it compares with PCI 😀