COOLER MASTER Wave Master TAC ATX Yellow Metal MidTower Computer Case.

I just could not resist this yellow case. Solid Aluminum.

I think I will put a Pentium-3 system in this case.

Intel486dx33 wrote:

Lian Li PC-V800 ATX HTPC standing Case.

I think I will put a AMD k6-3-500mhz and Super socket 7 motherboard in this case.

I thought about buying that. Only thing stopping me was that I didn't get paid until today.

Yeah, I lost out on one about 6 months ago but not today.
I have been looking for a good desktop case and now I have one.

yawetaG wrote:

This will soon come to me:

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Oh man, I'd kill to have that disc... I love any of that older software and hardware geared towards desktop users.

chose007 wrote:

I see, than you have one of first release. Question what is max cooling temperature. My Mach II GT can do +/- -60 and second I h […]
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I see, than you have one of first release. Question what is max cooling temperature. My Mach II GT can do +/- -60 and second I have -65.
I have original plate 12V and 7.2W, maybe this can help you for good choise.
Yep cooling head has heating too but this doesn't help to much for back side of motherboard.

Test without heating plate after 5 minutes ... almost useless. Lot of snow and ice 😀
Still you can easy start fun with own heating.

Well the seller said the setting on it can go below -60.. pic shows -61 but it really depends on whether it is filled with R134A or R404.
If it has R404 in it, then it should do the same as the MACH II GT if I understand correctly that they all use the same compressor.
The heating elements available are not the same and say they get up to 140C at the stock power of 12v 7w for a round one.
I'm guessing the Mach II has some sort of power control for the heating elements. I will just have to rig up an old Zalman single fan controller as set mine manually I guess. Will also have to make the plate and shim for the back as well.

How warm does the heating plate on yours get?

SpeedySPCFan wrote:

yawetaG wrote:

This will soon come to me:

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Oh man, I'd kill to have that disc... I love any of that older software and hardware geared towards desktop users.

Once I've moved I will have to get my disc imaging stuff worked out - I have 50-100 Shareware CDs and the like.

Unfortunately it also looks increasingly likely I will have to get a new modern laptop, not because my older MacBook can't actually run modern stuff, but because the package manager that enables it to do so keeps getting its update process "improved" by its maintainers (actually "outright broken by main dev gone power-mad and banning anyone who dares to complain" - Goodbye, Homebrew 😵 ), making every upgrade a major nightmare 😠 So that will have to happen first.

Picked up this small AT SS7 Ali V motherboard. Jetway J542B Rev.3 Going to test it out later. I see the board has a patched BIOS for full K6 III+ Support.

Two PC's came in today. One P1 en one P3 era.

Bancho wrote:

Picked up this small AT SS7 Ali V motherboard. Jetway J542B Rev.3 Going to test it out later. I see the board has a patched BIOS […]
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Picked up this small AT SS7 Ali V motherboard. Jetway J542B Rev.3 Going to test it out later. I see the board has a patched BIOS for full K6 III+ Support.

What a great little board! AT form factor for those small mini AT towers, k6iii support, integrated everything and the CPU socket doesn't block and of the slots! Plus good slot variety. I need to find me one of these

Just paid for a boxed Vintage joystick, found locally... This time, a "Quickshot II Turbo". That model is something that are extremely nostalgic to me, as I played with that model back in the 1980's. No seller picture, yet the stick was really cheap and it is newly refurbished by the seller.

For those that do not know what it is, then I have found a stock image on the net. Since the seller took the ad down after I had a chance to save the picture.

This Quickshot, together with Arcade joysticks by Suzo were a large part of my youth (;

Couldn't resist this one:

Olivetti M240, Olivetti's first "normal" PC, the successor to the M24, which was years ahead of its time, with 8086 and 16b (proprietary) expansion bus - that no one except Olivetti ever made a peripheral for. The M240 has a regular 8b XT bus, and no compliated 16b video card / expansion bus controller but in this case a simple Paradise PEGA2 card, some WD ST-506 card - and with its 8086-10 it still outperformed any normal XT, although by the time these came along that wasn't looking so impressive anymore vs AT & clones and the first 386. Still, a rock-solid XT-clone.

This system was purchased from the original owner, a retired dentist who only ever did one thing with it - his bookkeeping. The system boots straight into his bookkeeping program. Only input he used was manual, only output was to a Star NL-10 dot matrix printer. Didn't get that because he wanted more for it than for the whole system - and I hate printers at the best of time.

And it has one other excellent feature: the motherboard is mounted upside-down. So when the battery leaks, it doesn't leak onto the PCB, but onto the case:

This is after cleaning up. Dust on the motherboard and little daughterboard previously containing the battery, corrosion on the bottom plate, removed with vinegar.

TEAC FD-55GFR for my 486DX2 build. It could use a little bit of Retrobrite, or possibly a paint job if I can find a matching color.

Picked up this case today and got a box full of goodies too. Some PSU's and accessories.
I am going to put a P3 CPU and ISA/PCI/AGP motherboard and add my ISA sound cards and some Terratec PCI sound cards too.
Turn it into an Audio PC.
I just love these Aluminum cases.
Yellow Audio PC.
What should I call it ?

appiah4 wrote:

EWS64.. So cool, so jealous..

Seems I have to give it a try then 😀

liqmat wrote:

Man that looks nice mounted in a case. ^^^^ Aren't those ALR coolers the coolest?!?! Pun intended. Don't forget to rewire them for that board.

So cool 🤣 I have them wired up to a molex at the moment, easier to hide the cables 😀

Just got my second DEAD Radeon 9800 Pro. Man I don't think many of these cards are in working condition given my luck. Both the sellers claimed they were tested and working perfectly. They arrived in antistatic bags and bubble wrapped outside of that so I think they were broken prior to shipping.

I have seen this before and have been able to fix this by reflowing the GPU and ram chips with a heat gun and no-clean flux. Just pour some no-clean flux on chip solder joints and heat with heat gun until all the no clean flux evaporates. Let the flux do the work of repairing the solder joints.

dionb wrote:

Couldn't resist this one: https://tweakers.net/ext/f/Eb4GlEXZav4pwxyTnF7FyEmW/full.jpg […]
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Couldn't resist this one:

Olivetti M240, Olivetti's first "normal" PC, the successor to the M24, which was years ahead of its time, with 8086 and 16b (proprietary) expansion bus - that no one except Olivetti ever made a peripheral for. The M240 has a regular 8b XT bus, and no compliated 16b video card / expansion bus controller but in this case a simple Paradise PEGA2 card, some WD ST-506 card - and with its 8086-10 it still outperformed any normal XT, although by the time these came along that wasn't looking so impressive anymore vs AT & clones and the first 386. Still, a rock-solid XT-clone.

This system was purchased from the original owner, a retired dentist who only ever did one thing with it - his bookkeeping. The system boots straight into his bookkeeping program. Only input he used was manual, only output was to a Star NL-10 dot matrix printer. Didn't get that because he wanted more for it than for the whole system - and I hate printers at the best of time.

Love the look of this system.

Shagittarius wrote:

Just got my second DEAD Radeon 9800 Pro. Man I don't think many of these cards are in working condition given my luck. Both the sellers claimed they were tested and working perfectly. They arrived in antistatic bags and bubble wrapped outside of that so I think they were broken prior to shipping.

I just bought one today with similar issues. I bought it as-is for $5, so no big loss. I think I'll try to reflow it like another poster said.

Been buying mine on ebay unfortunately for about $50 so back it goes, i dont know how stable a reflowed board with no clean flux would be...