Arctic wrote:

Was that the one for 19.99 dollars?
Nice find!

If you ever want to trade it, I would be interested 😀

Yup, that's the one! Still can't believe I found one at that price...

Yes, that's the one I was looking for. 😀

Put out a low bid on this and won it! Not sure what I'll use it for, but is wel documented so that's a plus! Must figure out how to supply power to it.

Also got his one for a low price:

And these handy trays for Socket 5 / 7 / A: Found them on eBay, but a seller in my country so low shipping for me! Also got them the day after ordering 😀

stamasd wrote:

Apparently back in 2002 there were couple of adapters made that had a voltage converter on-board, similar to those socket 370 T […]
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Apparently back in 2002 there were couple of adapters made that had a voltage converter on-board, similar to those socket 370 Tualatin adapters.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/processor … ards,520-4.html
http://www.geek.com/chips/socket-423-to-socke … -for-50-547612/

Those would allow 400MHz FSB Northwood chips to be used in Socket 423 motherboards. Been looking for one for some time, but I have never seen one on sale anywhere. They must not have sold well and there probably aren't many of them around.

Thanks for info, very interesting. Will be hard to find this. Who can bought this ... few yelaous people.

back to office I got another old Abit socket7

And once again back to my few days old Abit, I got photo by seller which own another piece with PISA card. Yes thats magical card to this board is riser card for some desktop case:-)
So thanks to him that i can share photo.

Got this in the mail today - a Diamond SpeedSTAR VGA card, 1MB with Tseng EX4000AX chipset. One piece closer to starting a 486 build, but still some parts left to get.

Got this Yamaha SW60XG today. The say it's not that rare, but it seems quite rare to me, as I struggled to find one lately.

I wanted it for my retro build. I have NEC XR385 already, but I kinda prefer to have a separate ISA card in my machine.

It came with box, manuals and all other goodies (which I don't care about).

Paid 70 USD shipped.

Bought it from https://retrosoundcards.wordpress.com/ blog author.

chose007 wrote:

And once again back to my few days old Abit, I got photo by seller which own another piece with PISA card. Yes thats magical car […]
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And once again back to my few days old Abit, I got photo by seller which own another piece with PISA card. Yes thats magical card to this board is riser card for some desktop case:-)
So thanks to him that i can share photo.

Holy shit! This solves a riddle we've been trying to solve for years!

tikoellner wrote:

Bought this funny little tower as well for my 486 build: http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii603/tikoellner/6232798025_zpswt9r […]
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Bought this funny little tower as well for my 486 build:

This is now my favorite tower case. 😀

I've been looking high and low for a tower case for my 486 online, with pretty much no luck. But seeing this gives me hope that there's more out there to be found.

I remember seeing this case being sold with a brand new 486 in early 1993 at a local hardware store. This was around the time they started pushing the mini-tower configuration. My family just bought a 486 with desktop case and I remember being so impressed with how futuristic and cool this one looked compared to my own.

I had a full tower case at that time, one similar to this one:
https://www.amazon.com/Mid-Tower-AT-Computer- … tage+tower+case

In hindsight, I wish I had bought one of the small tower cases, and held on to it. 😀 That small tower case has everything I want now. The size, LED readout, and turbo-button. The 486 I just bought came in an AT&T brand desktop case.

Cyrix200+ wrote:

Put out a low bid on this and won it! Not sure what I'll use it for, but is wel documented so that's a plus! Must figure out how […]
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Put out a low bid on this and won it! Not sure what I'll use it for, but is wel documented so that's a plus! Must figure out how to supply power to it.

aah. pca-6144v. power comes from the 4 pin connector in top right of card. top right connector is for +5 +12, the connector below it is for -5 -12

http://downloadt.advantech.com/ProductFile/Do … 54/PCA6144V.pdf

chose007 wrote:

And once again back to my few days old Abit, I got photo by seller which own another piece with PISA card. Yes thats magical car […]
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And once again back to my few days old Abit, I got photo by seller which own another piece with PISA card. Yes thats magical card to this board is riser card for some desktop case:-)
So thanks to him that i can share photo.

So that's what that PISA slot is for...

tikoellner wrote:

Just bought this strange VLB card for 10USD. Suppose it's some TSENG ET4000 - Cardex 9209 VLB VGA Card - Tseng ET4000/W32 specifically (not sure - FCC suggests it's a Gainward).

http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii603/tik … zpskmywkpqn.jpg

Any thougts? Is it any good? 😀

It is this one http://retronn.de/imports/hwgal/hw_et4000_w32i_vlb.html
I upgraded it to 2 MB. It is fast in DOS, but not so fast (compared to others) in Windows with acceleration. VMode allows to set higher refresh rates in DOS, however I somehow can not set high refresh modes reliably in Windows 95. So 1024x768 at 64K defaults to 43Hz interlaced (While in DOS it works to 72 Hz).
The RAM DAC could be a bit faster when equipped with 2 MB. One nice thing is that you can set all variants of Wait States by Jumper.

So if you go for DOS it is a fast one, for Windows some S3 Vision is better.

elianda wrote:

I upgraded it to 2 MB.

Where did you guys find the required DIP DRAM chips? I've been searching for years and so far had no luck.

You take it from any other vga card - ie. buy cheap Trident 1MB and there you go 😉

Just watch the ratings on the chips.

devius wrote:

elianda wrote:

I upgraded it to 2 MB.

Where did you guys find the required DIP DRAM chips? I've been searching for years and so far had no luck.

From china through Taobao or aliexpress

VIA/Cyrix III 600 MHz.

AMD 486 DX/4 100 WB & Intel 486 DX/4 75 WT.

Cyrix 5x86 100

Cyrix 6x86 MII 333's, one @ 75 MHz bus, other at 83 MHz.

Also got 2 Mendocino Celeron's @ 466 MHz and a PIII copermine @ 733 MHz & a very early P4 Northwood 1.6 in the same lot.

I have a second card of the same kind and joined the memory on one. It's all socketed, so it is reversible, thus no loss.

devius wrote:

elianda wrote:

I upgraded it to 2 MB.

Where did you guys find the required DIP DRAM chips? I've been searching for years and so far had no luck.

Here is the datasheet of the memory chips soldered to the motherboard: http://www.datasheets360.com/pdf/6806924364049024400

Basically you have to find compatible chips in a DIP package (256kx4 FP-SDRAM 45ns or faster) According to the datasheet, the same chips were also made in DIP-20 package. The part number for those would be v53c104hp45.

stamasd wrote:

Basically you have to find compatible chips in a DIP package (256kx4 FP-SDRAM 45ns or faster) According to the datasheet, the same chips were also made in DIP-20 package. The part number for those would be v53c104hp45.

Yep, finally! I managed to find those for sale on Aliexpress at a decent price (compared to what they are charging on eBay), but I've never used that service. I'll let you guys know if I decide to order them.

I have another ET4000, but it's an ISA card and it uses slower RAM at 70ns. A shame because all its 8 chips are in sockets and seem to be compatible except for the slower timing 🙁 All my other cards that have sockets use SOJ chips, and I probably have spares for those from other cards.

Thanks everybody 😀