Finally got my first VIA 694T motherboard. I don't honestly know what I'm going to do with it, but I've long wished I had one, and it's a full size board with an ISA slot, so I jumped on it. Up to now my only Tualatin boards were serious business i815 boards that couldn't be tweaked and their RAM limit sucks.
The 694T came with some retro overclocking gear installed. Counter rotating fans! They're shot though, totally useless in their current state. I think they were generally considered a gimmick but it was cool seeing a counter-rotate dual fan gizmo in person.
The heatsink is colored like faux copper. I'm no expert but the color looks off and I think it should be heavier.
The CPU compound is shiny like Arctic Silver (excessive amount, really) in keeping with the period.
Underneath all that the CPU is a 1GHz Coppermine. It makes me wonder if the original owner didn't realize this board could run Tualatins, so he maxed out the Coppermine instead and presumably overclocked it. Feel sorry for that guy, if so. An overclocked Tualeron would have been perfect.
It has bad caps, but it POSTed once. I wanted to establish that baseline before replacing them. Maybe that was a mistake. It locked up in the BIOS setup after about a minute and I couldn't get it to POST again. I will replace the caps, I just hope in that 1 minute it didn't cause more serious damage.