Bought it mostly because I needed an ISA VGA.. The bottom card appears to be a Triden T9000 TVGA which I guess will do fine in my UMC 486S 33 system. The top card, I need for a Pentium 133 system. The middle card, I didn't really need as I already have 2 ESS ISA sound cards, but the only Crystal card I have is a PCI so what the hell. Also, never saw a card like this, looks like it's not a full 16-bit ISA card?
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For f**k's sake! How about not wrapping nice hardware in bubble wrap? I really wish sellers could package items better, especially when it's an Asus NCCH-DL motherboard that I bought for $90!
One of the motherboards VRM heatsinks looked like the Leaning Tower of Pisa and I did not find any Xeon Nocona heat sinks that clerared the caps around the sockets. Still I needed this board tested so I just took two Prestonia heatsinks and removed them from their mounting kit.
The first test with one CPU with a heatsink just placed on top of the CPU without any cooling paste or mounting kit. It was a success and I let the board run for half an hour just to see that it would not suddenly die like the Asus NCCH-DL motherboards you read about here on Vogons...
Ebay do have some nice Nocona heatsinks but the prices seem to start at about 70 euro shipped for two really good ones and perhaps half of that for two crappy ones... Not really acceptable so I bought a full dual socket 604 tower with two 3.6 GHz Nocona CPUs for 50 euro shipped. With luck this HP systems crappy coolers will fit the Asus board, if not well 50 euro is not much for a complete socket 604 system with 3.6 GHz CPUs as the price included shipping from the UK to Sweden...
It at least looks like these heat sinks will fit the Asus NCCH-DL. The heat sinks look like the kind that screws directly into the motherboard tray but I can handle a drill or just shorten the feet. As I work at a mechanical workshop making small mods is not that much of a hassle, in time I will probably make mounts for two Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme.
As I told once... first - I'm more than lucky, second - I think I have quite good searching skills, third - I love gravis cards 😀 ... but this time it was a different case... it just apeared on one of local portals and I bought it after short "negitiations"...
And it seems to be different than one very similar clone I have... thire is no memory slot on it and there are some dpis on left top corner which are no on mine... also serial numer is different mine is 00685 or something and this one is 06000 like so it must be later revision...
Trident TVGA900 ISA. Finally an ISA VGA for my U5SX33 build. Can't tell whether it's 512KB or 1MB but its probably the former which should be enough for pre-92 DOS gaming.
S3 Trio V64+ PCI. I was out of PCI cards for my P1 board. Appears to have had some soldering repair on the upper right memory chip probably a socket issue. I hope it will work fine. EDIT: The two bottom right caps have leaked, the board and connectors have corrosion - will have them removed and replaced, hopefully it will work fine after that..
Crystal CX4235-X03 ISA sound card. No idea if its even a good chipset or how it compares to SB16 and ESS cards.
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I got some Socket 604 Xeon CPUs from the UK today.
This is not how you package and ship CPUs with fragile pins! Socket 603/604 pins are as bad as the Socket 478 ones but there are even more of them. Out of 5 CPUs all had bent pins, most a few one alot luckily none was totally unsalvageable but getting these CPUs into the socket the first time will be a challange.
There is absolutely no padding at all protecting the CPU pins...
Got a nice pile of ISA cards today, including three VGA cards (TVGA9000, Chips, Cirrus Logic), two AWE64, and an ALS100+ based sound card with external OPL3 (wtf? The Plus should have that one integrated, no?)
During a cross-country trip, I stopped in a little computer shop. They happened to have a big box of old expansion cards that they let me pick through. Came away with these 4 for $20 US. Included are a voodoo3 3000 (D?) AGP, a Creative CT6960 GEFORCE 256 SDR missing a fan, an Asus V3800/32M Riva TNT2, and a Yamaha Xwave based PCI card.
Missing is the Matrox G200 that I left lying in the shelf...
