Amazing! Not 80%, not 90%, but 100% contiquity!

Daniël Oosterhuis wrote on 2023-12-29, 17:03:

The last thrift shop visit of the year did not disappoint!

Between the rubbishy Pentium 4 laptops, one lonely 1998 Toshiba Satellite Pro with its charger sat on the shelve for 15 euros, marked as tested and working.
It's a 470CDT, with a Pentium 200MMX, 32MB of RAM and a 2.1GB hard drive.

That’s a nice find! Make sure you pull the CMOS and Hibernation batteries from the inside, they’re varta NiMH packs that leak nearly 100% of the time in their age.

devius wrote on 2024-01-05, 19:17:

Amazing! Not 80%, not 90%, but 100% contiquity!

It doesn’t get any better than that!

I bet they had a team of contiquadors contiquing for months to get it that good.

HangarAte2nds! wrote on 2021-09-19, 04:16:

Definitely the coolest of my recent acquisitions: […]
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Definitely the coolest of my recent acquisitions:

Won auction on eBay for $63 plus shipping. The listing kinda sucked and they just had a single photo, with cooler obscuring the Am486DX4-120 CPU so I took a chance. I am glad I did. The MB is a Pine PT-430. There was also a ridiculous 48MB of RAM installed. I am thinking this was an industrial PC.
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Hello!

This is a long shot but I am in desperate need of photos of the voltage regulator add-on. Please see my post here:
REQUEST: Pine Technology PT-430 Socket 3 Motherboard and the quest for 3.3 volts.

Just bought an ASUS CUR-DLS fitted with 2x 1Ghz PIII’s and 512MB 133Mhz ECC memory for $67. Thought I could use it has a Retro LAN File Server and maybe a Quake 3 server running Windows 2000. If anyone has any other ideas, let me know 😀

Today I was incredibly lucky at the local second-hand shop, for around $35 I got THIS:

Gigabyte GA-5AX rev 4.1 (SS7)

Asus PVI-486SP3 with all the connectors and an Am486 DX4-100

A Voodoo 3 3500...but I don't have the purple breakout cable. Have to look if "generic" connectors exist for these.

I'm so happy, this is an insanely low price compared to eBay 😀

Minutemanqvs wrote on 2024-01-06, 10:57:

Today I was incredibly lucky at the local second-hand shop, for around $35 I got THIS: […]
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Today I was incredibly lucky at the local second-hand shop, for around $35 I got THIS:

Gigabyte GA-5AX rev 4.1 (SS7)

Asus PVI-486SP3 with all the connectors and an Am486 DX4-100

A Voodoo 3 3500...but I don't have the purple breakout cable. Have to look if "generic" connectors exist for these.

I'm so happy, this is an insanely low price compared to eBay 😀

P&D Connector. I bought one (though I have the breakout box, but this is more convenient), and it works great. You only need to massage the soft metal housing on the M1 side of the adapter with needle nose pliers to properly fit onto the 3500, and you’re all set.

Here’s the one I use available on Amazon::
https://www.amazon.com/Monoprice-Male-HD-15-F … r/dp/B001TILQO6

Meatball wrote on 2024-01-06, 12:15:

P&D Connector. I bought one (though I have the breakout box, but this is more convenient), and it works great. You only need to […]
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Minutemanqvs wrote on 2024-01-06, 10:57:

Today I was incredibly lucky at the local second-hand shop, for around $35 I got THIS: […]
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Today I was incredibly lucky at the local second-hand shop, for around $35 I got THIS:

Gigabyte GA-5AX rev 4.1 (SS7)

Asus PVI-486SP3 with all the connectors and an Am486 DX4-100

A Voodoo 3 3500...but I don't have the purple breakout cable. Have to look if "generic" connectors exist for these.

I'm so happy, this is an insanely low price compared to eBay 😀

P&D Connector. I bought one (though I have the breakout box, but this is more convenient), and it works great. You only need to massage the soft metal housing on the M1 side of the adapter with needle nose pliers to properly fit onto the 3500, and you’re all set.

Here’s the one I use available on Amazon::
https://www.amazon.com/Monoprice-Male-HD-15-F … r/dp/B001TILQO6

Thanks a lot for the reference 😀

...and I also got a COAST module which is no use to me but I couldn't let it there, so if someone needs that particular model...I can find references to it on a FIC mainboard http://www.amoretro.de/2012/01/fic-pa-2002-vi … otherboard.html

It's noted:
Model: PBS-256
Doc: 15180

It was mouse and floppy day at the thrift, bunches of mice hung up, nothing I needed or super good there, two 3.5 floppies, clean looking, mitsumi and TEAC, yes I'll take those kthxbuy. I was thinking of going all flash floppy replacement, but you know what, I think I wanna use a floppy when I want to use a floppy, not have to take it to the tweener, make an image, copy that image back to thingy and sneakernet it back to machine I needed it on. So anyway, these don't look like they've got special skills, the trimmed down late 90s versions of classics with no jumper pins, but they will be solid drives for 93-2005 and I can pick and choose the full featured drives from the rest for when special setup needed (Older machines and 4 drive setups etc)

Left an ATX PSU there, still wondering about it, did not recognize brand, medium quality feeling, had machined sinks, not too light, dual fan, 35A on 5V .. however, gold finish which is the mark of crap trying to look fancy. Should have grabbed a pic because the name gone right out of my head now. Reminded me of MIOS units, anyway, had stout 5V for ATX and reasonable 12, so not sure if I want it for socket A or not, might go and have another look while I'm out tomorrow.

edit: yah I think the PSU was nothing special, seems to have been the retailplus 465W that Staples used to carry for too much money then put on door crasher special for still $5 or $10 more than what it was worth. IDK about buying a used one though. Derated to 350W notional I might use NIB ones got cheap for late 5V stuff though.

zuldan wrote on 2024-01-06, 10:32:

Just bought an ASUS CUR-DLS fitted with 2x 1Ghz PIII’s and 512MB 133Mhz ECC memory for $67. Thought I could use it has a Retro LAN File Server and maybe a Quake 3 server running Windows 2000. If anyone has any other ideas, let me know 😀

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I have a CUR-DLSR and it came with a very limited HP bios. I could flash an Asus bios without issues.

I have it to run on XP with a PCI Quadro4 NVS280 (~= fx5500) and dual Coppermine 1Ghz and a usb sound card dongle. I could find no use for it on the long run to be honest. But it ran fine HL2.

I bought it for fun and because it was very cheap. 30€ incl. the two coppermine, the ram and scsi drive.

Will probably revisit the build because i found a Radeon HD3450 PCI recently. Can it run Crysis ?

acl wrote on 2024-01-07, 11:01:

I have a CUR-DLSR and it came with a very limited HP bios. I could flash an Asus bios without issues. […]
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zuldan wrote on 2024-01-06, 10:32:

Just bought an ASUS CUR-DLS fitted with 2x 1Ghz PIII’s and 512MB 133Mhz ECC memory for $67. Thought I could use it has a Retro LAN File Server and maybe a Quake 3 server running Windows 2000. If anyone has any other ideas, let me know 😀

E6B6BD95-0EA1-480C-8E56-F4349A5AABB5.jpeg

I have a CUR-DLSR and it came with a very limited HP bios. I could flash an Asus bios without issues.

I have it to run on XP with a PCI Quadro4 NVS280 (~= fx5500) and dual Coppermine 1Ghz and a usb sound card dongle. I could find no use for it on the long run to be honest. But it ran fine HL2.

I bought it for fun and because it was very cheap. 30€ incl. the two coppermine, the ram and scsi drive.

Will probably revisit the build because i found a Radeon HD3450 PCI recently. Can it run Crysis ?

No, unless you consider power point slide shows to be "Running" Crysis 🤣.

acl wrote on 2024-01-07, 11:01:

I have a CUR-DLSR and it came with a very limited HP bios. I could flash an Asus bios without issues. […]
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zuldan wrote on 2024-01-06, 10:32:

Just bought an ASUS CUR-DLS fitted with 2x 1Ghz PIII’s and 512MB 133Mhz ECC memory for $67. Thought I could use it has a Retro LAN File Server and maybe a Quake 3 server running Windows 2000. If anyone has any other ideas, let me know 😀

E6B6BD95-0EA1-480C-8E56-F4349A5AABB5.jpeg

I have a CUR-DLSR and it came with a very limited HP bios. I could flash an Asus bios without issues.

I have it to run on XP with a PCI Quadro4 NVS280 (~= fx5500) and dual Coppermine 1Ghz and a usb sound card dongle. I could find no use for it on the long run to be honest. But it ran fine HL2.

I bought it for fun and because it was very cheap. 30€ incl. the two coppermine, the ram and scsi drive.

Will probably revisit the build because i found a Radeon HD3450 PCI recently. Can it run Crysis ?

Is there anything special about the Radeon HD3450 PCI or it’s just a random PCI card you found?

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-01-07, 11:17:

No, unless you consider power point slide shows to be "Running" Crysis 🤣.

I might try anyway 😃

zuldan wrote on 2024-01-07, 11:53:

Is there anything special about the Radeon HD3450 PCI or it’s just a random PCI card you found?

It's a late PCI (not express) card. DX10.1 compatible.

Nothing special about it. It's among the latest/most powerful ones. (But there are a few more powerful pci cards).

Any PCI graphics card newer than ~2002 is not super common. Especially DX9+ ones.

acl wrote on 2024-01-07, 12:12:

It's a late PCI (not express) card. DX10.1 compatible.

Nothing special about it. It's among the latest/most powerful ones. (But there are a few more powerful pci cards).

Any PCI graphics card newer than ~2002 is not super common. Especially DX9+ ones.

Ok great let me know how it performs.

acl wrote on 2024-01-07, 12:12:

It's a late PCI (not express) card. DX10.1 compatible.

Nothing special about it. It's among the latest/most powerful ones. (But there are a few more powerful pci cards).

Any PCI graphics card newer than ~2002 is not super common. Especially DX9+ ones.

Actually, if you could show a picture of the card that would be great. I’ve only seen a PCIE and AGP version.

acl wrote on 2024-01-07, 12:12:

I might try anyway 😃 […]
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Trashbytes wrote on 2024-01-07, 11:17:

No, unless you consider power point slide shows to be "Running" Crysis 🤣.

I might try anyway 😃

zuldan wrote on 2024-01-07, 11:53:

Is there anything special about the Radeon HD3450 PCI or it’s just a random PCI card you found?

It's a late PCI (not express) card. DX10.1 compatible.

Nothing special about it. It's among the latest/most powerful ones. (But there are a few more powerful pci cards).

Any PCI graphics card newer than ~2002 is not super common. Especially DX9+ ones.

There is a HD4350, HD5450 and HD7350 model too, nothing for the HD6000 or HD8000 OEM series though.

IIRC the GT430 PCI would be the last PCI card from nVidia, I could be wrong and there is some obscure later model but I doubt it. (Been after one of the Zotac GT430 PCI models for a long while now, either they are too expensive or no shipping to AUS)

The other option for nVidia is a 8400GS PCI or 9400GT PCI

I have the 7350 PCI and its an ok SFF additional display card if you really dont have anything better 🤣.

zuldan wrote on 2024-01-07, 12:28:

acl wrote on 2024-01-07, 12:12:

It's a late PCI (not express) card. DX10.1 compatible.

Nothing special about it. It's among the latest/most powerful ones. (But there are a few more powerful pci cards).

Any PCI graphics card newer than ~2002 is not super common. Especially DX9+ ones.

Actually, if you could show a picture of the card that would be great. I’ve only seen a PCIE and AGP version.

Oh my mistake. It's actually an HD4350. (I swapped the first two digits in my memory).
It's actually a bit faster.

It's a Club3D CGA-4352PLI (HD4350 512MB)

https://icecat.biz/en/p/club3d/cga-4352pli/gr … li-3779647.html

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Al_T6bSoclM

acl wrote on 2024-01-07, 13:03:

Oh my mistake. It's actually an HD4350. (I swapped the first two digits in my memory). It's actually a bit faster. […]
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zuldan wrote on 2024-01-07, 12:28:

acl wrote on 2024-01-07, 12:12:

It's a late PCI (not express) card. DX10.1 compatible.

Nothing special about it. It's among the latest/most powerful ones. (But there are a few more powerful pci cards).

Any PCI graphics card newer than ~2002 is not super common. Especially DX9+ ones.

Actually, if you could show a picture of the card that would be great. I’ve only seen a PCIE and AGP version.

Oh my mistake. It's actually an HD4350. (I swapped the first two digits in my memory).
It's actually a bit faster.

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It's a Club3D CGA-4352PLI (HD4350 512MB)

https://icecat.biz/en/p/club3d/cga-4352pli/gr … li-3779647.html

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Al_T6bSoclM

That might run Crysis in 640x480 with low details ok, might need some active cooling on there though, its gonna get toasty !