^ nice one!

Good motherboards are like buses: nothing for ages, then several appear at once. Looks like I'm getting my hands on a second MS-6168 (BX with onboard Voodoo3). Maybe the fan on this one isn't as completely ruined as on my current one. Plus I want to run a Tualatin P3 1400-S (arrived today: yay!) on it which could be risky (VRMs not exactly designed for such current at low voltage). Having a backup is a nice idea. Also some other ATX Slot 1 board which looks suspiciously like a Tyan Tsunami. Still, shouldn't count my chickens till they've hatched - let's wait until this stuff gets here and then see if it actually works...

cyclone3d wrote:

Holey mackerel... I found a cheapish ASUS P3B-F v1.04 motherboard with 1GB RAM, an AGP Rage IIc video card.. and wait for it... […]
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Holey mackerel... I found a cheapish ASUS P3B-F v1.04 motherboard with 1GB RAM, an AGP Rage IIc video card.. and wait for it... a Slot-1 Pentium III 1000/256/100 CPU.

MWAHAHAHA 😈 for the CPU. The motherboard and video card were not really even on my radar as I have plenty of Slot 1 440BX motherboards already and the video card is meh.

Seller's pic.

P3BF-104-PIII-1000-100.jpg

Exactly how rare is the PIII-1000 100fsb Slot-1 ?

I couldn't find any on eBay or on the sold or finished sales/auction history.

I let one go on shopgoodwill a month or so ago. It went up to $60 or so plus shipping before I backed off. It was sealed in box. 😵

About to place an order for this card; can anyone spot any issues with it visually? Some capacitors seem to be unpopulated but I can't be sure they fell off later.. An old listing on eBayhas even fewer capacitors.

pepino_169 wrote:

NEC MVA-1024 clone of PGC (Professional Graphics Controller) CGA/EGA up to 1024x768 max video memory 768kB […]
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NEC MVA-1024
clone of PGC (Professional Graphics Controller)
CGA/EGA up to 1024x768
max video memory 768kB

...there is a TMS3410 on there too... TIGA?

appiah4 wrote:

About to place an order for this card; can anyone spot any issues with it visually? Some capacitors seem to be unpopulated but I can't be sure they fell off later.. An old listing on eBayhas even fewer capacitors.

The steel back plate is rusty 🤣

PS: Capacitors does not seem to be fallen of, probably not populated from the beginning.

appiah4 wrote:

About to place an order for this card; can anyone spot any issues with it visually? Some capacitors seem to be unpopulated but I can't be sure they fell off later.. An old listing on eBayhas even fewer capacitors.

This listing also has good photos to compare: https://www.ebay.com/itm/CIRRUS-LOGIC-FCC-ID- … d-/171261110460

Cyrix200+ wrote:

appiah4 wrote:

About to place an order for this card; can anyone spot any issues with it visually? Some capacitors seem to be unpopulated but I can't be sure they fell off later.. An old listing on eBayhas even fewer capacitors.

This listing also has good photos to compare: https://www.ebay.com/itm/CIRRUS-LOGIC-FCC-ID- … d-/171261110460

Well, that one is specifically listed as not working so I'm not sure if it's a good specimen to compare with 🤣

Regardless, I bit the bullet and bought it. Now I can do my Hippo VL+ DCA, EDRAM, VLB, DX2-66 build.

appiah4 wrote:

Cyrix200+ wrote:

appiah4 wrote:

About to place an order for this card; can anyone spot any issues with it visually? Some capacitors seem to be unpopulated but I can't be sure they fell off later.. An old listing on eBayhas even fewer capacitors.

This listing also has good photos to compare: https://www.ebay.com/itm/CIRRUS-LOGIC-FCC-ID- … d-/171261110460

Well, that one is specifically listed as not working so I'm not sure if it's a good specimen to compare with 🤣

Regardless, I bit the bullet and bought it. Now I can do my Hippo VL+ DCA, EDRAM, VLB, DX2-66 build.

I noticed that too, but it will give you some more data/information. Enjoy the build! I love VLB DX2/66 systems 😀

pepino_169 wrote:

NEC MVA-1024 clone of PGC (Professional Graphics Controller) CGA/EGA up to 1024x768 max video memory 768kB […]
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NEC MVA-1024
clone of PGC (Professional Graphics Controller)
CGA/EGA up to 1024x768
max video memory 768kB

Thats cool! My EGA Monitors has an Input for PGC, its an analog one.

I have asked myself what PGC is and if it even existed - never seen it.

Also like to have such card!

At long last, I have an X1950PRO AGP for my Socket 754 build. It even came with a modded Thermaltake AT1 blower type cooler. Now I have to decide between a Radeon 9800/X1950/HD3850/HD4650. I love problems as sweet as this 😀

Facepalm! I accidentally lowballed an auction.

I should probably stay off Ebay when I'm working all-nighters on a cocktail of coffee & ibuprofen.

So how much did I pay for this gargantuan beauty, you ask? Well, the amount rhymes with Ben Sucks. (Sorry, unspecified Ben!)

Not bad of a motherboard. Looks like a workstation or server motherboard, judging by the dual CPU setup there and the PCI-X slot (mainly used by servers, workstations, and PowerMacs at that time).

Iirc it's a RAIDport (version III, imho). Not a PCI-X.

Yep, it's apparently a Gateway 4000494 from an ALR 7200 server. Not a lot of info out there on this board, if you google either of those terms you'll likely get the auction advert I just bought it from (which I won't link to because the seller has 7 more available, ahem) and not much else.

Looks like a pretty nice board, BX chipset (wish it were GX), onboard SCSI, and even an ISA slot although it's hard to see in the pic. No AGP but I can live with that (has a Cirrus Logic 54M30 on the AGP bus - which is interesting because 99% of these things have a Rage.)

It also probably fits in one of my spare cases, and is of no immediate use to me beyond Dicking Around With. Ah well, guess that's a good enough reason. 😜

hard1k wrote:

Iirc it's a RAIDport (version III, imho). Not a PCI-X.

That explains it, I was wondering if it was a 5V PCI-X which is not something I've ever seen. (Are all PCI-X 3.3V?)

Can I just use it as a 32-bit PCI slot?

xjas wrote:

Can I just use it as a 32-bit PCI slot?

Totally.

dionb wrote:

Good motherboards are like buses: nothing for ages, then several appear at once. Looks like I'm getting my hands on a second MS-6168 (BX with onboard Voodoo3). Maybe the fan on this one isn't as completely ruined as on my current one. Plus I want to run a Tualatin P3 1400-S (arrived today: yay!) on it which could be risky (VRMs not exactly designed for such current at low voltage). Having a backup is a nice idea. Also some other ATX Slot 1 board which looks suspiciously like a Tyan Tsunami. Still, shouldn't count my chickens till they've hatched - let's wait until this stuff gets here and then see if it actually works...

good analogy;)

@xjas

Links for...

... the motherboard -https://web.archive.org/web/20041222204751/ht … 4000494tc.shtml

...the server - https://web.archive.org/web/20041224114237/ht … ers/8504076.pdf

today I received these 2 cards 😀

appiah4 wrote:

Cyrix200+ wrote:

appiah4 wrote:

About to place an order for this card; can anyone spot any issues with it visually? Some capacitors seem to be unpopulated but I can't be sure they fell off later.. An old listing on eBayhas even fewer capacitors.

This listing also has good photos to compare: https://www.ebay.com/itm/CIRRUS-LOGIC-FCC-ID- … d-/171261110460

Well, that one is specifically listed as not working so I'm not sure if it's a good specimen to compare with 🤣

Regardless, I bit the bullet and bought it. Now I can do my Hippo VL+ DCA, EDRAM, VLB, DX2-66 build.

Great... Yeah. There is something about VLB system's. Something different that are really cool.
If you get tired of playing with DX2-66, then upgrade to DX2-80.
Not many people are doing systems like that, yet I think that 2xVLB cards and 40mhz FSB are great.

This is my Dx2-80 system:
Dx2or (Dextor) - A tale of a Dx2 Rebuild Log