liqmat wrote:

Interesting. Same design, but mine was a full tower version of this with, I believe, four or five 5¼" drive bays. Thanks for the photo.

Still hoping to find a full tower from the mid 90's 😀

FIC VA-503+ revision 1.2A with PPGA Pentium MMX 166mhz. 1mb L2 cache, FSB options up to 124mhz.

Ok, I kind of feel like I won the crap lottery today. Besides the impeccable Baby AT case and a questionable power supply.

This must be the cheapest socket 7 bundle there was. PC Chips M592:

slivercr wrote:

The tualeron SMP won't work. And from experience, a P3-S would smoke the OCed tualeron anyways. Looks like a nice board, though!

Hmmm.. Maybe I'll swap in my PIII-S 1.4s into this board then. Or maybe I'll just run the 800s at 1064.

Guess I will do some testing after it gets here.

PCI Quadro FX600 on the other board vs AGP ? on this board.

elod wrote:

Ok, I kind of feel like I won the crap lottery today. Besides the impeccable Baby AT case and a questionable power supply.

This must be the cheapest socket 7 bundle there was. PC Chips M592:

The mighty Utron UT801x chipset if I'm not mistaken! 😁

That board is a keeper for sure!

The mighty Utron UT801x chipset if I'm not mistaken! 😁

That board is a keeper for sure!

The one and only. One of my other PC Chipses caps literally fall off (and it still works 😀 ), but not on this one.

elod wrote:

This must be the cheapest socket 7 bundle there was. PC Chips M592:

http://elod.online.ro/vogons/M592.jpg

On-board video (SiS 6215), on-board sound, and... on-board 16MB of EDO RAM, too! Totally unique.

Primax Soundstorm Wave Sound M16-C GF1 1MB ISA (Boxed) (1992)

3DFX Voodoo5 5500 AGP Special Edition Mouse Pad with Apology Letter (2000)

My 3rd 3DFX HammerHead FX Game Controller (Boxed) (1999)

Always a pleasure Artex! Glad to see you haven’t lost the collectors bug, but are you still building machines?

badmojo wrote:

Always a pleasure Artex! Glad to see you haven’t lost the collectors bug, but are you still building machines?

Thanks!!! Definitely haven't lost the bug but my time is much more limited with my 2.5 year old running around! I also moved last summer and I've been spending any available time organizing my builds vs building them.

I have a shiny new AT desktop case with triple-digit display just waiting for my Cyrix 5x86 133/4x setup - just gotta find time to do it!

bought an old pc for 5 bucks

it came with pcchips m919+amd 133mhz
and the card was so dusty and full of spiders that i thought it was a trident..but no

a cirrrus logic GD5428

anyone knows what type of memory chips can i use to upgrade? are those found on ebay easy?

My haul from Taiwan 😀 (I posted a picture of the 3DO Blaster earlier).

3DO Blaster
Terratec MiniWaveSystem WT64 1.0A

And a sound card I can't identify, for Karaoke, I think. Chock full of wavetable, Crystal sound chip.

^^ May have to figure out a way to attach the coin battery to the 3DO blaster. Also, do you have the CR-563 to go with this beast?

pepino_169 wrote:

Tseng EVA-480, ET2000 One of first cards that emulates EGA (IBM EGA compatible), 256kB RAM Graphic resolution 640x480, 16 colors […]
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Tseng EVA-480, ET2000
One of first cards that emulates EGA (IBM EGA compatible), 256kB RAM
Graphic resolution 640x480, 16 colors (from 64 color palette)
Hardware zoom/pan
Zilog Z80 (4MHz) makes card fully CGA/Hercules compatible.
I think, this is late revision with Z80 integrated on single board. Former revision had Z80 on daughterboard.

I'm glad it went to a Vogoner. Have you been able to test it yet? Does it work?

Artex wrote:

^^ May have to figure out a way to attach the coin battery to the 3DO blaster. Also, do you have the CR-563 to go with this beast?

I desoldered the battery - I'll be attaching a coin cell 😀
I do have the original CD-ROM drive (not the B version).

furan wrote:

Artex wrote:

^^ May have to figure out a way to attach the coin battery to the 3DO blaster. Also, do you have the CR-563 to go with this beast?

I desoldered the battery - I'll be attaching a coin cell 😀
I do have the original CD-ROM drive (not the B version).

Nice!! You should create a new thread when you have this up and running!! 😎

@Artex. Very nice. Now I am sure I should have bought a house with a basement.

Edit: I have this bizarre item on the way.

Back in the day, I had a thing that was supposed to help overclocking socket 7 CPUs. Basically, you slid it on the CPU pins before putting the CPU in the socket. All it was was a thin plate with a bunch of extra smd capacitors on it. Guessing it was supposed to help make the power going to the CPU cleaner. Not sure if it actually helped or not.

cyclone3d wrote:

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@Artex. Very nice. Now I am sure I should have bought a house with a basement.

Edit: I have this bizarre item on the way.

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Back in the day, I had a thing that was supposed to help overclocking socket 7 CPUs. Basically, you slid it on the CPU pins before putting the CPU in the socket. All it was was a thin plate with a bunch of extra smd capacitors on it. Guessing it was supposed to help make the power going to the CPU cleaner. Not sure if it actually helped or not.

Now that is actually something I have never seen before. How strange.

cyclone3d wrote:

Back in the day, I had a thing that was supposed to help overclocking socket 7 CPUs. Basically, you slid it on the CPU pins before putting the CPU in the socket. All it was was a thin plate with a bunch of extra smd capacitors on it. Guessing it was supposed to help make the power going to the CPU cleaner. Not sure if it actually helped or not.

If it had power to it the it was probably a peltier cooler.
I remember those being sold for that back then. (With a lot of hype.)

Guessing it was supposed to help make the power going to the CPU cleaner.

Looks like a separate VRM, probably with voltage jumpers somewhere. I think you can fit Pentium MMX or AMD K6-2 into motherboard without split-rail voltage (430FX) with this thing.