Some pics with a setup i use almost daily at my work,it's not that old or special to deserve a new thread:

It has a socket A Epox EP-8RGM3I motherboard,with nforce 2 chipset,with integrated graphics.
Amd Athlon with Barton core 2500+,overclocked to 3200+
1g of ram
Gigabyte Radeon 9600 pro,with passive cooling(and lower factory clock speeds for both gpu and mem,becouse of that)
80 g WD ide 100,hard drive.
Integrated sound and network
Asus 52x cdrom drive.
19 inch Samsung 971p lcd monitor.
A pair of 2.1 Logitech speakers.

N-force 2 was an excellent chipset, I originally had an 1800XP then upgraded to a barton 2500XP overclocked to 3200XP levels, how does that machine hold up with modern browsing?

Browsing is good,youtube on the other hand is slow,usually just 360-480p full screen.

Hi there!

So here I am with my 'loaded' IBM Aptiva:

o AMD K6-III+ 400 on a Kingston TurboChip-Socket (4x66 MHz)
o 128 EDO PS/2 RAM
o 20 GB Maxtor 541DX
o Adaptec aha 1542cf with external SCSI CD-ROM drive
o Vibra 16 CT2800 (OPL3)
o 3Com 905
o Voodoo3 2000 PCI

Running IBM PC-DOS 7 & NT4.0

Cheers!

@geoman

Do you honestly expect us to ignore the SGI machine hiding in the first picture? POST MOAR!

that IBM tower is awesome 😀

luckybob wrote:

@geoman

Do you honestly expect us to ignore the SGI machine hiding in the first picture? POST MOAR!

😀

1    Octane2 4% hinv -mv
2    Location: /hw/node
3          PM20400MHZ Board: barcode XXXXXX     part 030-1476-001 rev  D
4    Location: /hw/node/xtalk/15
5                IP30 Board: barcode XXXXXX     part 030-1467-001 rev  H
6    Location: /hw/node/xtalk/15/pci/2
7        PWR.SPPLY.ER Board: barcode XXXXXXXXXX part 060-0035-002 rev  A
8                 FP1 Board: barcode XXXXXX     part 030-0891-003 rev  H
9    Location: /hw/node/xtalk/11
10      ODY128VERSIONB Board: barcode XXXXXX     part 030-1611-001 rev  C
11    2 400 MHZ IP30 Processors
12    Heart ASIC: Revision F
13    CPU: MIPS R12000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.5
14    FPU: MIPS R12010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0
15    Main memory size: 8192 Mbytes
16    Xbow ASIC: Revision 1.4
17    Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
18    Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
19    Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 2 Mbytes
20    Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended
21      Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 1)
22      Disk drive: unit 2 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 2)
23      Disk drive: unit 3 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 3)
24    Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended
25    IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty1
26    IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty2
27    IOC3 parallel port: plp1
28    Graphics board: V12
29    Integral Fast Ethernet: ef0, version 1, pci 2
30    Iris Audio Processor: version RAD revision 12.0, number 1
31      PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0003) PCI slot 2
32      PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 0
33      PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 1
34      PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0005) PCI slot 3

1    Octane2 5% /usr/gfx/gfxinfo
2    Graphics board 0 is "ODYSSEY" graphics.
3            Managed (":0.0") 1696x1056
4            BUZZ version B.1
5            PB&J version 1
6            128MB memory
7                    Banks: 4, CAS latency: 3
8             Monitor 0 type: Unknown
9            Channel 0:
10             Origin = (0,0)
11             Video Output: 1680 pixels, 1050 lines, 60.00Hz (1680x1050_60)

keropi wrote:

that IBM tower is awesome 😀

Thanks 😎

It's my second computer (C64 was the first). Though I don't know why IBM chose this exotic Optic chipset...

SGI machines are so damn sexy... please excuse me while i touch myself.

luckybob wrote:

SGI machines are so damn sexy... please excuse me while i touch myself.

There is a thriving SGI-hobbyist - community:
http://www.nekochan.net

New members are always welcome!

Geoman wrote:

It's my second computer (C64 was the first). Though I don't know why IBM chose this exotic Optic chipset...

Where's the C64?

IBM did make some very handsome PC's, but yeah what's with the OPTi Viper chipset? The Redhill guide states that the Viper was an unreliable flop, have you had any trouble with it?

Thanks for sharing!

Geoman wrote:

There is a thriving SGI-hobbyist - community: http://www.nekochan.net […]
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luckybob wrote:

SGI machines are so damn sexy... please excuse me while i touch myself.

There is a thriving SGI-hobbyist - community:
http://www.nekochan.net

New members are always welcome!

I'm looking for a Sun Sparc community so I can find a copy of the SunPC (not SunPCI) software.

Geoman wrote:

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Hi there!

So here I am with my 'loaded' IBM Aptiva:

o AMD K6-III+ 400 on a Kingston TurboChip-Socket (4x66 MHz)
o 128 EDO PS/2 RAM
o 20 GB Maxtor 541DX
o Adaptec aha 1542cf with external SCSI CD-ROM drive
o Vibra 16 (Yamaha OPL-Version)
o 3Com 905
o Voodoo3 2000 PCI

Running IBM PC-DOS 7 & NT4.0

Cheers!

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I love your Aptiva!!!!

I had a similar one through my University days but mine had an intel Pentium 75....it was my 3rd computer I owned (My first being a Tandy Color Computer 3 and my second a 486SX25 "Pizza Box" style VTech PC).

I remember selling it to a friend of mine a year later for half of what I bought it for (it was about $2300USD new at that time!!!) I wish I never sold it.

The crappy MWave card left a lot to be desired though...except come to think of it, I did make very good use out of the speakerphone software that was included. I could record phone conversations and I left my computer on all day because it worked as an answering machine as well.

Did you have an MWave card in there originally?

badmojo wrote:

Where's the C64? […]
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Geoman wrote:

It's my second computer (C64 was the first). Though I don't know why IBM chose this exotic Optic chipset...

Where's the C64?

IBM did make some very handsome PC's, but yeah what's with the OPTi Viper chipset? The Redhill guide states that the Viper was an unreliable flop, have you had any trouble with it?

Thanks for sharing!

I sold the C64 for getting enough money for the Aptiva back then.

The Viper was the last chipset from OPTi - appearantly they had no chance against the upcoming Intel-chipsets...

It runs very stable, but compared to Intel chipsets of that time somewhat slowish. And it needs exotic asynchronous COAST modules, which are slower than the common sync/piplened burst modules.

retrofanatic wrote:

I love your Aptiva!!!! […]
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I love your Aptiva!!!!

I had a similar one through my University days but mine had an intel Pentium 75....it was my 3rd computer I owned (My first being a Tandy Color Computer 3 and my second a 486SX25 "Pizza Box" style VTech PC).

I remember selling it to a friend of mine a year later for half of what I bought it for (it was about $2300USD new at that time!!!) I wish I never sold it.

The crappy MWave card left a lot to be desired though...except come to think of it, I did make very good use out of the speakerphone software that was included. I could record phone conversations and I left my computer on all day because it worked as an answering machine as well.

Did you have an MWave card in there originally?

Thank you! 😎

My Aptiva originally came with P75, 8 MB FPM and 540MB HDD. I was lucky to get one with Vibra16-ISA-board with Yamaha-chip (so essentially an SB16) and not MWave.

Geoman wrote:

There is a thriving SGI-hobbyist - community: http://www.nekochan.net […]
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luckybob wrote:

SGI machines are so damn sexy... please excuse me while i touch myself.

There is a thriving SGI-hobbyist - community:
http://www.nekochan.net

New members are always welcome!

I had an SGI Indy once upon a time. R4600-133, 256MB RAM, 4GB drive. It had the 8bit XL video card when I got it but I upgraded to the 24bit XL. Always regretted selling it. I've always thought about buying another one, but with the R5000-180.

I think I have a pic of it somewhere.

I'll post pics of my machines tonight, but I did take pics of the remainder of my video card collection.

This is the Matrox collection (with one exception). Pictured is a 32MB G450 Dual Head AGP, 16MB G400 Dual Head PCI, 16MB G400 NLX AGP, and an 8MB G200 NLX AGP.

This is what I've reduced it down to. I've owned more G400's and G200's in the past but have sold them off.

This is the pride and joy of my Matrox cards.

Matrox Mystique220 w/Rainbow Runner capture daughterboard. I've owned the Mystique for almost 16 years, the RR for maybe 12. This combination has pretty much ensured that Windows98SE will always have a presence on my network at some point.

My ATI cards that aren't in use. The Rage Pro Turbo has an NLX mounting bracket installed. This was installed in my Gateway E3200 until I started rethinking the purpose of that box. It was replaced by a Radeon 7000 PCI card identical to the one in this pic. Not pictured ('cause I'm using it) is a Radeon 7200 PCI (in use in my other Gateway machine).

This is "Team Nvidia". Pictured is a 64MB Geforce2MX AGP, 256MB Geforce FX5500 AGP (which seems to have an issue with temperatures), Geforce 512MB 8400GS PCI-E, and a 768MB Quadro 1800FX. Not pictured is the 64MB Elsa Gloria II with the very first Quadro.

It pains me to think about it... but I had more cards than this back in Sept. I tossed a bunch of cards out while unpacking after we moved and they included some random TNT2-M64 card, a fairly unique Rage Pro Turbo w/Video IO on it as well as some additional IO (only had 6MB of memory, 4MB on board and 2MB on a SODIMM) and a couple of G200's.

Misterjones -- please don't tell me some of these cards are on a bare carpet! 😊

yes, yes, yes... I know. I have a severe shortage of static bags at the moment.

Just picked up about 18 SGI machines from a collection. I now own 15 indys (going to sell some).

One of the Indys is an R4400/200 with XZ video, which should be nice to try. Couple of the o2 are R10K too (only 175MHz though).

I posted this over at OCAU as well 😀