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Bought these (retro) hardware today

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Reply 12260 of 52356, by devius

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Those would allow 400MHz FSB Northwood chips to be used in Socket 423 motherboards. Been looking for one for some time, but I have never seen one on sale anywhere. They must not have sold well and there probably aren't many of them around.

Wouldn't it be easier to just get a socket 478 motherboard instead?

Reply 12261 of 52356, by stamasd

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devius wrote:
stamasd wrote:

Those would allow 400MHz FSB Northwood chips to be used in Socket 423 motherboards. Been looking for one for some time, but I have never seen one on sale anywhere. They must not have sold well and there probably aren't many of them around.

Wouldn't it be easier to just get a socket 478 motherboard instead?

Well at the time, people had invested in socket423 and it was expensive to toss that whole system and switch to a socket478 instead.

And I have my reasons to want a socket423 system... one being that those were the last systems (as far as I can tell) that would occasionally have a SB-link header... 😀

I/O, I/O,
It's off to disk I go,
With a bit and a byte
And a read and a write,
I/O, I/O

Reply 12262 of 52356, by tikoellner

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Just bought this strange VLB card for 10USD. Suppose it's some TSENG ET4000 - Cardex 9209 VLB VGA Card - Tseng ET4000/W32 specifically (not sure - FCC suggests it's a Gainward).

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Any thougts? Is it any good? 😀

Bought this funny little tower as well for my 486 build:
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Reply 12265 of 52356, by Mr_ppp

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Gone a bit bonkers recently and been buying non stop. Awaiting lots of deliveries but 2 notable ones are managing to bag a Voodoo3 2000 PCI and a BFG 7950GX2 😀

I love buying joblots as I find a great thrill going through all the cards and seeing what you get and what works! 😎

Reply 12266 of 52356, by Arctic

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Sutekh94 wrote:
My NV1 arrived today! […]
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My NV1 arrived today!

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Now to have some fun...

Was that the one for 19.99 dollars?
Nice find!

If you ever want to trade it, I would be interested 😀

Reply 12268 of 52356, by stamasd

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Mr_ppp wrote:

Gone a bit bonkers recently and been buying non stop. Awaiting lots of deliveries but 2 notable ones are managing to bag a Voodoo3 2000 PCI and a BFG 7950GX2 😀

I love buying joblots as I find a great thrill going through all the cards and seeing what you get and what works! 😎

We seem to have similar buying profiles. Two of my most recent acquisitions were a V3-3000 and a BFG 7800 (AGP). 😀

I/O, I/O,
It's off to disk I go,
With a bit and a byte
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I/O, I/O

Reply 12269 of 52356, by shiva2004

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tikoellner wrote:
Bought this funny little tower as well for my 486 build: http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii603/tikoellner/6232798025_zpswt9r […]
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Bought this funny little tower as well for my 486 build:
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I really like this case, looks like the goofy but lovable friend all of us have.

Reply 12270 of 52356, by Jade Falcon

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Bancho wrote:
My "Korean Guy" Tualatin 1400-S arrived today. 8 Days from S.Korea to UK not bad. […]
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My "Korean Guy" Tualatin 1400-S arrived today. 8 Days from S.Korea to UK not bad.

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Good luck, I bought a few and they did not work on anything

Reply 12271 of 52356, by Bancho

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Jade Falcon wrote:

Good luck, I bought a few and they did not work on anything

Mine worked fine on my Asus CUSL2-M. Booted first time. Updated my build thread with details.

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Reply 12272 of 52356, by shiva2004

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My latest eBay buy, an Asus A8N-SLI Premium; nothing too rare or really retro but it's perhaps the best 939 desktop motherboard available and it was a 1€ bid (+postage, of course 🤣 ) including an Athlon 3500+ Venice core. It's in very good shape, works perfectly and in fact it looks barely used.

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Reply 12273 of 52356, by kithylin

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Recently happened in to a combo listing totally at random one night. I just decided.. type it in to ebay, and low and behold, there it was.. and at a decent price.

Don't have it in my paws yet, seller's really slow to send it. But basically it's an AthlonXP motherboard, unknown processor, full-copper with fan heatsink and a Geforce3 Ti500 all for $43 shipped.

I have no idea what processor I'll get with it.. the motherboard does support up to 400-FSB Bartons.. maybe I'll be lucky.

Admittedly the only thing I want out of the listing though is the video card, the rest I don't care much for.

Looks like one of the nicer Ti500's too with DVI and svideo out.

Original listing was here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/131827742396?_trksid= … K%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Not the best photos so not entirely sure exactly what I'm getting. Part of the fun/mystery of ebay though. 😀

Reply 12274 of 52356, by ScoutPilot19

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A man on a forum said, he found some old computer in the attics of his country cottage - I bought it and it happened to be the IBM PC 5150, even not the XT) IT even had an HDD drive) ... I wonder is there any reason to keep it, as it has only 256kb memmory - is it too smal to run anything... Or maybe to search for a memmory expansion card))

Here are pictures in high resulution - https://yadi.sk/d/mq73726us9zDB

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Reply 12275 of 52356, by Cyrix200+

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My fathers 386 SX 16 MHz (an Octek motherboard I believe) had this case. It fills me with nostalgia!

tikoellner wrote:
Just bought this strange VLB card for 10USD. Suppose it's some TSENG ET4000 - Cardex 9209 VLB VGA Card - Tseng ET4000/W32 specif […]
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Just bought this strange VLB card for 10USD. Suppose it's some TSENG ET4000 - Cardex 9209 VLB VGA Card - Tseng ET4000/W32 specifically (not sure - FCC suggests it's a Gainward).

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Any thougts? Is it any good? 😀

Bought this funny little tower as well for my 486 build:
6232798025_zpswt9ria92.jpg

1982 to 2001

Reply 12277 of 52356, by Cyrix200+

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Yes, it was exactly like this one! Yellow MHz display (ours said '16' of course). I have seen it once before on Vogons, lemme check if I can find it.

1982 to 2001

Reply 12279 of 52356, by kixs

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tikoellner wrote:

@Cyrix200+

did your fathers case had this mhz display as well? I just have some doubts if it's a genuine design or some add-on by the previous owner.

I have this one and LCD is the same:
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Requests are also possible... /msg kixs