Was looking for a GUS for years and almost gave up.
How the turn tables today.
It was somewhat of a surprise system that didn't involve kidney selling. Disassembled the whole thing:

PD2JK wrote on 2023-01-05, 17:06:

Was looking for a GUS for years and almost gave up.
How the turn tables today.
It was somewhat of a surprise system that didn't involve kidney selling. Disassembled the whole thing:

Nice! How did you find that one?

PD2JK wrote on 2023-01-05, 17:06:

Was looking for a GUS for years and almost gave up.
How the turn tables today.
It was somewhat of a surprise system that didn't involve kidney selling. Disassembled the whole thing:

Wow... what a crazy combination of high end hardware (WD90C33, AWE64, GUS MAX). Almost looks like someone was on VOGONS trying to put together some kind of ultimate 1994-1996 system except they based it on a 486 DX2 and the games were too slow so they gave up? 😁

PD2JK wrote on 2023-01-05, 17:06:

Was looking for a GUS for years and almost gave up.
How the turn tables today.
It was somewhat of a surprise system that didn't involve kidney selling. Disassembled the whole thing:

Nice, a GUS MAX along with an AWE64 Gold! 😁

It also took me a good while to get a GUS card at an affordable price and it wasn't even an excellent bundle like that.

Local craigslist with auction mode on. The bidding stopped after a few days without the auction being at the ending time. So the seller contacted me, think he needed the money, don't know. But he was a retro fanatic that's for sure.

PD2JK wrote on 2023-01-05, 17:06:

Was looking for a GUS for years and almost gave up.
How the turn tables today.
It was somewhat of a surprise system that didn't involve kidney selling. Disassembled the whole thing:

Jeez. That's about as max spec of a system as you can get, only way to improve on that would be adding more L2 cache and RAM, but mostly unneeded. Congrats!

PD2JK wrote on 2023-01-05, 17:06:

Was looking for a GUS for years and almost gave up.
How the turn tables today.
It was somewhat of a surprise system that didn't involve kidney selling. Disassembled the whole thing:

Great DX2-66 cpu! 😉

PD2JK wrote on 2023-01-05, 17:06:

Was looking for a GUS for years and almost gave up.
How the turn tables today.
It was somewhat of a surprise system that didn't involve kidney selling. Disassembled the whole thing:

Great find VLB system + x2 high end/ exotic audio cards.. I wonder only how much did u pay, but my guess will be between 100 and 200 euros, for the whole computer / bundle..

Gotta love the local AD sites, as there can be found great treasures for dirt cheap or good price.. While ebay is a rip off for sure...

(if the VESA card was Creative 3D Blaster VLB, was going to be more then epic find)

That's a correct guess Radical Vision.

Only the PSU was half dead, measuring 8.5V at the 12V rail.

Quick eBay grab, seller took a $309 offer. Very nice looking IBM 5170.

Normally I wouldn't pay that much plus shipping for one of these as nice as this one looks, but with the Intel Inboard 386/AT, AST Advantage Premium with 1MB daughtercard, and AST RAMpage Plus 286 in there, this was way, way too good a deal to pass on.

Tru dat, you could spend a large part of a thousand finding a clean 5170 and putting those two in it. Good find. ... ... I'd pretty much have to find the same setup for cheap to tempt me into a 5710 again, they're a bit of a dog at stock.

Somebody has a "Pionex Gold Series 386SX" for sale for $40 near me.

Anybody familiar with these? Do they use coin cell batteries, barrel or a Dallas RTC? Proprietary board or just a normal board? Debating getting it

PD2JK wrote on 2023-01-05, 17:06:

Was looking for a GUS for years and almost gave up.
How the turn tables today.
It was somewhat of a surprise system that didn't involve kidney selling. Disassembled the whole thing:

So happy for you! Time to assemble my PicoGUS this weekend 🤣

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote on 2023-01-06, 04:59:

Somebody has a "Pionex Gold Series 386SX" for sale for $40 near me.

Anybody familiar with these? Do they use coin cell batteries, barrel or a Dallas RTC? Proprietary board or just a normal board? Debating getting it

I don't believe a 386SX with coin cell exists. Best you can hope for is an external battery.

appiah4 wrote on 2023-01-06, 06:14:

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote on 2023-01-06, 04:59:

Somebody has a "Pionex Gold Series 386SX" for sale for $40 near me.

Anybody familiar with these? Do they use coin cell batteries, barrel or a Dallas RTC? Proprietary board or just a normal board? Debating getting it

I don't believe a 386SX with coin cell exists. Best you can hope for is an external battery.

I've seen two branded 386SX boards with coin cell batteries. As I recall it were compatible with 486Sx cpu's.

My Tulip AT 386DX board had 3xAA batteries which were in front of the case under the LCD screen. Easy to replace them.

Board design of 1989.

appiah4 wrote on 2023-01-06, 06:14:

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote on 2023-01-06, 04:59:

Somebody has a "Pionex Gold Series 386SX" for sale for $40 near me.

Anybody familiar with these? Do they use coin cell batteries, barrel or a Dallas RTC? Proprietary board or just a normal board? Debating getting it

I don't believe a 386SX with coin cell exists. Best you can hope for is an external battery.

There are even XT (8086) boards with coincells. 😀

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote on 2023-01-06, 04:59:

Somebody has a "Pionex Gold Series 386SX" for sale for $40 near me.

Anybody familiar with these? Do they use coin cell batteries, barrel or a Dallas RTC? Proprietary board or just a normal board? Debating getting it

There's one on eBay showing a Varta, appears to be Baby AT format.

edit: whoopsie that's not a 386, it's a 486.... but looks like they were clone builders nothing too custom in that one.

Got this ThinkPad T60 from trade (did give Cougar Speed mice pad).. It is with ATi Radeon x1400 and artifacts bonus..

Will gun down that crap artifacts with the heat gun, and see if will help... If not will use what i can to try to fix my 14 inch T60... Seems so far i have multiple laptops, and non is compatible with the other ffs... That being ThinkPad R60, T60 14", T61, T60 15"...

Radical Vision wrote on 2023-01-06, 17:09:

Got this ThinkPad T60 from trade (did give Cougar Speed mice pad).. It is with ATi Radeon x1400 and artifacts bonus..

Will gun down that crap artifacts with the heat gun, and see if will help... If not will use what i can to try to fix my 14 inch T60... Seems so far i have multiple laptops, and non is compatible with the other ffs... That being ThinkPad R60, T60 14", T61, T60 15"...

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I have some handfuls of years ago successfully baked a T43 (iirc) system board, reviving the ATI graphics chip on that. It froze randomly before that. Don't recall time and temperature, but it was board (and cpu) only, and packed in tin foil for heat distribution.

I know that reflowing is frowned upon by many, so at your own risk 😉

Today's haul locally for $40, finally a Pentium with decent label.