rein_ein wrote:

Lots of stuff just arrived to my door,i'm so glad and gonna test it all right now! […]
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Lots of stuff just arrived to my door,i'm so glad and gonna test it all right now!

Like this mid 90s hardware and early 3D especially. A few builds can be resurrected from this components. Quake era makes me always smile

Hey, K6-something spotted! I wonder when I come across one...

Or is it a K6-2? a 500Mhz model would be a nice bonus 😀

I bought a bunch of craphics cards from a local seller (x12 for £8) purely because of the unidentifiable PCI card I saw in the terrible picture. Turns out it's a REALmagic EM8300 MPEG-2 / DVD decoder card. Apparently useless without the proprietary video in cable to daisy-chain with the main graphics card. I've got the pinout - might be bothered to hack something together at some point. The other bonus was the ugliest heatsink I have ever seen in my life.

Observe:

Speaking of the K6-2, I've discovered that my Presario 1694 is probably the best laptop I've used for retro gaming - the SoundBlaster and Adlib emulation actually seem to be properly implemented and to be reliable, and most games I've tried run fine - even those that can be a bit picky about what they'll run on (or how they'll run.)

Pretty jealous about your finds though Mr_ppp, particularly the late model Acorn!

brassicGamer wrote:

Or is it a K6-2? a 500Mhz model would be a nice bonus :) […]
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Or is it a K6-2? a 500Mhz model would be a nice bonus 😀

I bought a bunch of craphics cards from a local seller (x12 for £8) purely because of the unidentifiable PCI card I saw in the terrible picture. Turns out it's a REALmagic EM8300 MPEG-2 / DVD decoder card. Apparently useless without the proprietary video in cable to daisy-chain with the main graphics card. I've got the pinout - might be bothered to hack something together at some point. The other bonus was the ugliest heatsink I have ever seen in my life.

Observe:

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Haha. I got one of those MSI cards in a video card lot as well. I believe the card I had my eye on was a geforce 4 ti4600 and I ended up getting the lot for less than a 4600 on its own. Needless to say there were about 4 geforce 4 mx cards in there too including that msi one. I literally 🤣'd when I saw that heatsink.

For a mamoth... £6.13

VLB S3 805 (45ns) VGA Card

Untested... but if it works, it seems like it will be fairly comfortable with higher FSB's... with a couple of options onboard.

brassicGamer wrote:

Or is it a K6-2? a 500Mhz model would be a nice bonus :) […]
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Or is it a K6-2? a 500Mhz model would be a nice bonus 😀

I bought a bunch of craphics cards from a local seller (x12 for £8) purely because of the unidentifiable PCI card I saw in the terrible picture. Turns out it's a REALmagic EM8300 MPEG-2 / DVD decoder card. Apparently useless without the proprietary video in cable to daisy-chain with the main graphics card. I've got the pinout - might be bothered to hack something together at some point. The other bonus was the ugliest heatsink I have ever seen in my life.

Observe:

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I do not think you need to use the pass through cable if you use a second screen (or a TV) to display the decoded video.

I might be getting an Asus Geforce 280 from a friend of mine in trade for a Q6600. No idea what I will do with it TBH 😁

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Hey, K6-something spotted! I wonder when I come across one...

Yes its a AMD K6-2 450 MHz,few boots in pair with asus tx97 with different jumper configuration and several cards giving nothing except black screen,still working on it 😒

Nice mATX combo arrived yesterday 😎

MSI MS-6168 with onboard Voodoo3 8MB, this board even has TV-OUT equipped. Part of the bundle is PIII 450 and 384 MB PC133 SDRAM. The 256MB stick seems to be not working/compatible with 6168. Everything else is in perfect shape.

I love this board 😁
Mine does need a complete recapping 😵

I like it also. 😀
One of the VRM capacitors is blown up, but the board was running whole night stable. I must buy some fresh caps and replace the old ones. Along with Abit BE6-II and some other boards that are waiting for repair.

Awesome day.
- 5x ethernet PCI cards.
- 1x Sound Blaster CT2290
- 1x Creative CT3600
- 1x Analog Devices AD1846JP
- 1x Addonics Sound Vision 500
- 1x OPTi 82C931
- 1x Adaptec AHA-2920 SCSI controller with cable
- 1x 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000 PCI 16mb
- 1x Diamond Monster Fusion AGP 16mb SGRAM
- 1x S3 Virge DX with all memory banks populated (no clue how much vram has)
- 5x slot 1 cpu
- 35x ide hard disks (one or two are SCSI and three are for laptops).
- 1x Epson 80mb HDD cartridge

All for $40. I'm wondering wich sound card should I keep for my Pentium rig. I think the competition would be between CT2290 and CT3600, right?
Meanwhile I'm stuck with HDD regenerator. I'm testing all the hard drives. I found one 20gb maxtor drive which hdd regenerator tested at 375 mb per second 😲 This is weird because all the other drives were between 6 and 12 mb per second, even new old stock drives.

The CT3600 is a Sound Blaster 32, which is basically a "value" AWE32: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Blaster_A … ound_Blaster_32

The CT2290 is a Sound Blaster 16: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Blaster_16#Models

The SB16 is likely to have the best OPL quality, while the SB32 might be fun to play with for wavetable MIDI (especially if you have some RAM to put in it?).

I don't. Those are 30 pin simm right? I only have 72 pin sticks. But let's suposse I put some ram on it. Which should be better?

ramiro77 wrote:

I don't. Those are 30 pin simm right? I only have 72 pin sticks. But let's suposse I put some ram on it. Which should be better?

If you want a newer kind of card, the Creative CT3600 is your only way.. Because it supports soundbank. Then it uses the EMU 8000 sound processor. The SB16 doesnt have this EMU 8000 processor onboard, but it can me upgraded by a seperate isa board with the EMU 8000 sound processor on it..

The good thing (off this SB16) over de CT3600 is that its having an wavetable header, so then it would be possible to install an wavetable soundboard..

The EMU 8000 is better over an stock SB16 card, but if you install an wavetable board on the SB16, then it will be better then the SB32 value sound card.

Allright. I will keep both then. It's almost impossible to find these things here. But I'm permanently buying hardware and sometimes things can get really surprising.

Thank you guys!

ramiro77 wrote:

Allright. I will keep both then. It's almost impossible to find these things here. But I'm permanently buying hardware and sometimes things can get really surprising.

Thank you guys!

Keep everything that you can, prices only go up these days 😢

Our market is far different from first world countries. The retro market here is almost inexistant. It's difficult to sell good items at right price. You ask more than five dollars for anything "old" and nobody will buy a thing. Of course there are always people asking too much for an item, but that's another thing. And I must admit that sometimes I need more space to buy more -desirable- things, so I just try to keep for myself those items that I really really like and just the neccesary amount of spares.

ramiro77 wrote:

Our market is far different from first world countries. The retro market here is almost inexistant. It's difficult to sell good items at right price. You ask more than five dollars for anything "old" and nobody will buy a thing. Of course there are always people asking too much for an item, but that's another thing. And I must admit that sometimes I need more space to buy more -desirable- things, so I just try to keep for myself those items that I really really like and just the neccesary amount of spares.

The prices in Western countries are often steep for retro gear, what you guys might pay five bucks for can go for $40 to $200 at the drop of a hat because hardly no one can get older gear at cheaper prices let alone cheap and in good condition. That 3dfx voodoo 3 2k pci you got lucky with is worth $50 alone so you kinda get an idea what some of us pay 😢
I sometimes have to settle getting parts that are clearly broken or is in questionable condition and try to fix them up just to not go broke.

Really good ISA soundcards are crazy expensive these days, I can get i7 quads for less money 😵