looks perfect for a compact PII build.

seems like you can remove that blue bezel and leave it all beige 😁 that hole at the bottom is for the tab to fit in?

svfn wrote on 2021-07-05, 15:21:

looks perfect for a compact PII build.

seems like you can remove that blue bezel and leave it all beige 😁 that hole at the bottom is for the tab to fit in?

I would also guess that it is Pentium II (around '98/'99) era.
I might spraypaint it all beige or leave it bicolour, not decided yet.

The hole on the bottom is for a sliding cover that covers two USB 1 front connectors (you know, one of these annoying ones with all the cable ends seperate).

ooh that's nifty 😁

i have a case with blue bezel that comes off too, probably to ease customization but it would have been nicer if it had holes for airflow haha.

Systems like that were sold post the year 2000. Like my Acer F1 system.

Made a major loot today - these are the main pieces

vad4r wrote on 2021-07-05, 16:13:

Made a major loot today - these are the main pieces
2021_07 Hardware (1).jpg

Sweet finds and in there boxes too. I have that same heat sink on a 1ghz slot A Athlon it does a good job keeping it cool.

Snatched a Roland SC-55 (GS logo only front) + Kawai XS-1 for 35 euros. 😀

I bought the following stuff for my ATX64

- SRam replacement module.
- TOLB 8701 Pal replacement.

The cool thing about the TOLB, is that it only eats 9mA instead of the original chip that eats around 25 to 30 mA.

A 2 MB Matrox MGA-2064W without the upgrade card and a 4 MB Hercules Dynamite 128.

I picked up a nice Iiyama Vision Master 17" from chinny22 (chinny22) yesterday - in need of a little retrobright and a repair of the DB15-HD15 cable that came with it but first tests look promising! I love the little LCD at the bottom showing you refresh rate etc 😀

SteveC wrote on 2021-07-06, 14:26:

I love the little LCD at the bottom showing you refresh rate etc 😀

I admit I had a little play with that as well as thought it was kinda cool.
But it's menu layout for actually changing a setting like position takes forever, still with any luck those are the set and forget type.

Miphee wrote on 2021-07-06, 10:38:

A 2 MB Matrox MGA-2064W without the upgrade card and a 4 MB Hercules Dynamite 128.

The Hercules Dynamite 128 looks beautiful from the back. Have been looking for this card, but they were all too expensive for me.

I took a group photo of all the graphics cards that arrived:

And a standalone from the V5 5500 Macintosh PCI (with PC Bios 😀 )

vad4r wrote on 2021-07-06, 16:09:

The Hercules Dynamite 128 looks beautiful from the back. Have been looking for this card, but they were all too expensive for me […]
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Miphee wrote on 2021-07-06, 10:38:

A 2 MB Matrox MGA-2064W without the upgrade card and a 4 MB Hercules Dynamite 128.

The Hercules Dynamite 128 looks beautiful from the back. Have been looking for this card, but they were all too expensive for me.

I took a group photo of all the graphics cards that arrived:
2021_07 Grafikkarten 01.jpg

And a standalone from the V5 5500 Macintosh PCI (with PC Bios 😀 )
2021_07 V5 5500 Mac PCI.jpg

Whoa! That ASUS card on the top right has somewhat like a daughterboard on it? What card it is? Never seen that before in this kinda of GPU, thanks for sharing!

It looks like it might be a GeForce 7900 GX2. It's a sli card and if you were lucky enough to afford two of them then you were able to have a quad sli system.

Yes, it´s Asus 7950gx2 and this is my Quad SLI System with these cards: Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

vad4r wrote on 2021-07-06, 16:09:

And a standalone from the V5 5500 Macintosh PCI (with PC Bios 😀 )
2021_07 V5 5500 Mac PCI.jpg

Words can't describe how much I'd love to stick one of those in my 500MHz beige G3.

Heya. So, for years I've been wanting to build a PC similar to what I'd had in the mid 90s but never quite had the money to really make the dream a reality, until now. I took a peek at local listings on ebay on a whim recently and to my utter surprise found someone selling a Pentium MMX 200, with 64gb of RAM, SB16 and an S3 Trio but it was just the computer itself, no other components, but for incredibly cheap ($240 AUD for the lot!) and even a short drive away so I jumped the hell on it and I'm still kinda tingling.

I then went sifting through the local thrift stores for monitors and I think I found a minor jackpot? https://www.cnet.com/products/benq-profession … ch-lcd-monitor/ for $8, 1024x768 native resolution TFT LCD, so it's 4:3. No CRT, but I've been looking around for 4:3 LCDs and they seem an absolute bastard to get these days. I hooked it up and surprisingly it seems to work great and looks perfect as far as I could tell from a brief test. When the screen it black the backlights are a bit weird but Duke Nukem 3D and Quake both looked amazing on it, I'm kinda blown away.

That's a nice find. BenQ monitors are very good and the specs look great as well and for a tough to beat price.

I didn't want to get anymore rubber dome keyboards, but found another KB-7953, this time in much better condition, lightly used but the box has seen better days. Didn't know it was named 'Preferred'? It came with a wrist wrest which I won't be using, and a PS/2 to AT adapter which is handy. Feels much better to type on than the previous KB-7953 that was battered by previous owner(s). The keys also have a textured sheen to it instead of completely smooth. Kinda like it now, but I still think the Gateway 2000 BTC dome over slider feels and sounds better.

vad4r wrote on 2021-07-06, 16:09:

The Hercules Dynamite 128 looks beautiful from the back. Have been looking for this card, but they were all too expensive for me […]
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Miphee wrote on 2021-07-06, 10:38:

A 2 MB Matrox MGA-2064W without the upgrade card and a 4 MB Hercules Dynamite 128.

The Hercules Dynamite 128 looks beautiful from the back. Have been looking for this card, but they were all too expensive for me.

I took a group photo of all the graphics cards that arrived:
2021_07 Grafikkarten 01.jpg

And a standalone from the V5 5500 Macintosh PCI (with PC Bios 😀 )
2021_07 V5 5500 Mac PCI.jpg

Holy crap, that's one impressive lot! Even two Rage Fury MAXX cards in there, you don't find these too often! Congratulations man. Where did you find all this stuff?