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.

@gramcon

Nice looking case. Looks to be early 00 or late 90s with the larger fans. but who knows, I have seen sk8 systems with larger fans back in the day but not many.

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Munx wrote:

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 🤣

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

I googled the board and cant see any missing heatsinks...

Munx wrote:

Jade Falcon wrote:

Munx wrote:

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 🤣

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

I googled the board and cant see any missing heatsinks...

I just looked it up, looks like only the pro version came with the heatsink at the very top of the board for the VRM/mosfets.

Your board dose have a spot to put one.

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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

Thanks! Unfortunately mine are 908... so theese wont fit 🙁

Batyra wrote:

Thanks! Unfortunately mine are 908... so theese wont fit 🙁

They'd physically fit in the card - can't you mix 908 and 909?

No. One is 1MB the other 1.125MB.

kixs wrote:

No. One is 1MB the other 1.125MB.

Gotcha. I have a dead ET6000 here with the same MoSys 908 RAM as yours but it's soldered on unfortunately.

Gramcon wrote:

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!

That's an Addtronics case, if I'm not mistaken. I'm surprised I haven't seen more (any?) of those here on Vogons.

Back in the day, after much research and consideration, I bought the same case (but mid-tower and alt. faceplate) for my first white-box system. I still have it, along with all the accessories and, ahem... even the cardboard box it came in, haha. It was and is a great case!

FWIW; regarding period correctness: I bought mine around 2001, and I think it was a fairly old model already at that time.

EDIT: upon further inspection it seems I am indeed mistaken. Might still be an Addtronics, but atleast it's not the model I was thinking about. Oh well.

Regardless, it's a fantastic case.

I'm really hoping I can find the case I used in the P2/P3 era, it was a simple InWin mid-tower case. No idea if it was even any good but the look is so nostalgic to me..

I got another nice old Tulip system again. This one is a Tulip at compact 3, a 286 system. It looks really similar in build to the PC compact 2 I have, it will be nice to compare. It came with an ATi VIP combined EGA/VGA card (just bought one a few weeks ago...) and the original paperwhite VGA monitor, which is also quite nice 😀 That is a bit of an oddity and I like that. The system does come with some problems, and someone has been poking around in there without much love. It will be fun to get it up and running again!

Also, I found these cards in a plastic bag on the floor of a secondhand store in the neighbourhood. Had to buy them all as a bundle, but that's okay, the price was just 2,50. There is only one card I was interested in, guess which one 😉

The bottom one because it's a remarked ALS4000 with halfassed surround sound??? 😉

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Also, I found these cards in a plastic bag on the floor of a secondhand store in the neighbourhood. Had to buy them all as a bundle, but that's okay, the price was just 2,50. There is only one card I was interested in, guess which one 😉

My first instinct would be the Viper V330. Not seen an NVidia card with ST on the chip (other than pics of the NV1)

That Tulip system looks rather interesting.

Congrats on that Tulip machine. Back when they were sold new in Denmark, the name was a bit confusing.
We had a national meat-company/slaughterhouse (one of the really big ones) and it was named Tulip as well.
So... To me a computer with the name Tulip, makes me think of "A butcher's computer".

Since I've found out that the need for more floppies to transfer data between older systems increased thanks to the increasing number of dead floppies in the Memorex pack I bought a few months ago (now I'm down to four perfectly working disks in that 10-pack). I bought a new set of floppies, this time I bought a 25-pack of Fujifilm 1.44MB diskettes on eBay. The way the seller packed them inside the envelope was interesting. Looks like the seller knew Christmas was coming and felt that it would be appropriate to use a gift box to insulate it. 😀

Might be rather uninteresting to most but this is the fastest Socket 7 CPU out there and my Socket 7 PC is on par with an early PII at last, and does my Voodoo 2 SLI some justice.

Also received this as a gift from an old friend. It will be used in restoring an old AT PC I got for next to nothing. It was originally a Pentium 133, but someone upgraded it to Celeron 400 at some point. I will downgrade it to its original configuration and restore the case etc.