ramiro77 wrote:

Pentium II 350 mhz. Nearly mint condition (noisy fan, but everything else is free of scratches or dust). Original Intel's bliste […]
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Pentium II 350 mhz. Nearly mint condition (noisy fan, but everything else is free of scratches or dust). Original Intel's blister. Bought it yesterday for one dollar.

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Perfect match for my Soyo 6BA+ III + Voodoo 3 3000 agp 😎
The only problem is that the motherboard doesn't came with the mounting system. I don't know what to do.

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Use tie-wraps as a temporary solution;

At least, until you can get a Slot 1 bracket? Brackets show up on eBay and other places quite often, so you wouldn't have to bodge it for too long I wouldn't think. Tie-wraps should be cheap and easy to find in the meantime though.

Umm I'm in Argentina. Buying a bracket would be more expensive than the whole rig. I think I will search for scrap motherboards and if I couldn't find anything I will design some metal bracket. I have tools and equipment for pretty much anything, but I'm lazy right now 🤣

HighTreason wrote:

Use tie-wraps as a temporary solution; http://www.duboisag.com/media/catalog/product/t/i/tie-wrap-ctwr_1.jpg […]
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ramiro77 wrote:

Pentium II 350 mhz. Nearly mint condition (noisy fan, but everything else is free of scratches or dust). Original Intel's bliste […]
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Pentium II 350 mhz. Nearly mint condition (noisy fan, but everything else is free of scratches or dust). Original Intel's blister. Bought it yesterday for one dollar.

*SNIP*

Perfect match for my Soyo 6BA+ III + Voodoo 3 3000 agp 😎
The only problem is that the motherboard doesn't came with the mounting system. I don't know what to do.

*SNIP*

Use tie-wraps as a temporary solution;

At least, until you can get a Slot 1 bracket? Brackets show up on eBay and other places quite often, so you wouldn't have to bodge it for too long I wouldn't think. Tie-wraps should be cheap and easy to find in the meantime though.

I run my Slot-1 boards without mounting systems, just make sure the CPU still sits in its slot after moving the system and everything will be fine.

Yes I could do that, but I will be less worried if I mount it with something 😵

ramiro77 wrote:

Yes I could do that, but I will be less worried if I mount it with something 😵

Another choice that perhaps is easier than the zip ties is hot glue, it's not a good choice if you want to switch CPU often though. 😀

ramiro77 wrote:

Umm I'm in Argentina. Buying a bracket would be more expensive than the whole rig. I think I will search for scrap motherboards and if I couldn't find anything I will design some metal bracket. I have tools and equipment for pretty much anything, but I'm lazy right now 🤣

Hey, mate, I will be moving to your great country in 2-3 months 😀
Will be really looking for new friends there 😉

And of course I will be able to bring you some stuff from RU, if you like.

Hey that's cool news! What brings you here? Another Vogons member searching for asado? Jajajaja!
I'll pm you.

A boy's first Tually board (Gigabyte GA-6VTXE)

The seller packed it like an idiot. He put the board with the processor and heatsink inside an anti-static bag, stuck it in a box and sent it. No bubble-wrap, foam or anything to dampen mechanical shocks. Oh, and the heatsink did come loose, luckly the board survived. It seems this board was partially recapped, as the solder on the tall 3300uF 6.3V caps looked like crap - one of them had one leg completly loose, no, not with a broken solder, but with no solder at all! Also all other big electrolytic capacitors are G-Luxon, but theze have KZG written on them, but no brand... If they were Chemicon they would say so, no?

havli wrote:

Something bigger this time. Not really retro, well - unless you take single thread performance into account. :lol: […]
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Something bigger this time. Not really retro, well - unless you take single thread performance into account. 🤣

Asus KGPE-D16 - dual socket G34

2x Opteron 6272 - Interlagos, 16 cores @ 2,1 GHz per CPU

Testing on benchtable

32 cores in total.
http://abload.de/img/g34_68rsva.png

I can think of thing that can push that kind of hardware gaming wise, multiboxing a dozen or so wow or eve accounts at once 😈

WoW gold farming? I guess that's one way to pay for those Voodoo cards.

ramiro77 wrote:

Hey that's cool news! What brings you here? Another Vogons member searching for asado? Jajajaja!
I'll pm you.

PM replied! 😀
Sorry for offtopic, but if any other Vogoneer argentino reads this, please PM me, as I'm looking for new friends in your country 😉

I remember seeing at least one more argentinian member.
It's interesting how "international" this forum is. There are members sharing -more or less- the same retro hobby.

I'm argentinian too :3 and yes, this forum is for every retro hardware collector around the world

I think we can organize a dinner to give a proper welcome to our future neighbour hard1k if all of us are relatively close to each other!

HD3850 AGP:

and not something entirely retro, but it lets me capture retro stuff (bought used):

Sorry, no actual photo, installed it in my machine before thinking of that 😀

Captured a test video from the most difficult game I know on the most picky card I have, Fatal Racing on the Creative 3D Blaster VLB. It worked fine with no isses:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HunGvGcpbJ4&feature=youtu.be

Another one with an Epiphan card 😀

Yesterday I received a package from a fellow VOGONS member containing a boxed Roland SCC-1 and a boxed Roland CM-500. Great stuff!
Last week I traded one of my Turtle Beach Rio wavetable boards for a Terratec wavetable board (a revision that I did not own yet) and a Roland MPU-401AT.
Besides that I will soon be making another trade for an Ensoniq Soundscape DB. So it seems there are still opportunities for extending my collection after a bit of a slow period.

vetz wrote:

HD3850 AGP:

Captured a test video from the most difficult game I know on the most picky card I have, Fatal Racing on the Creative 3D Blaster VLB. It worked fine with no isses:

I like the little club logo on the card.

You have a Creative Blaster VLB? Which organ did have to sell?

386_junkie wrote:

I like the little club logo on the card.

Should be Club3D. Nice that it's easy to identify.
I don't know if there are many manufacturers which have a logo which is based on their name, but not just the letters of the name. (Like those MSI heatsinks which spell MSI.)
Shuttle used to have a literal space shuttle as a logo, remember this from a 386 board, don't know how long they kept this.

vetz wrote:

HD3850 AGP: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/57506833/vogons/diverse/2016-01-27%2000.15.00.jpg […]
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HD3850 AGP:

Oh, i added one of these on my attempt of Retro Windows XP Machine, which is based on a Athlon 64 3200+ sk754, 2GB of ram and 500GB of hdd. It gave a new life to that machine as even Left4Dead2 is somewhat playable, even though it's a single core machine!