And finally... Just paid for one of these... Looking even more interresting. 😀

That was quite an unusual off-topic bit there.. Back on topic with retro hardware buys! A box of parts showed up on my doorstop today. Some of it was uninteresting, but here are the good bits.

First, a Sound Blaster 16 CT3910 with an OPL3

Trident TGUI9440 PCI Video Card

Adaptec AHA-2940 SCSI Card

Socket 7 Motherboard w/Cache module and Pentium 133

I havent figured out the brand and/or model of the motherboard yet, there does not seem to be any markings on it anywhere. I need to get it all fired up to figure it out.

This bad boy showed up today:

Going to bench it first on my DOS PC with all 4MB. Then will pull the socketed memory chips out and bench it with 2MB (I don't expect any difference but you never know). Then I will put 1MB into my mainboard to upgrade the onboard CL-GD5428 from 1 to 2MB. Of course, will bench that with 1 and 2 just for completeness sake. Then run fresh benchmarks on my TNT2 M64 and Millennium II. Will use Phil's latest VGA benchmark kit.

Should be a fun weekend. 😀

Just bought these today.

808x motherboard with V20 CPU, 640K memory and 8 8-bit slots.

286 motherboard with 287 fpu. Looks like it has had some leakage from the battery so will need some repair work.

Finally a Color Graphics card that will work in the V20 board. I don't know much about this, but it looks good 😀

Total of $45, courtesy of my drop shipper 😀

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Just bought these today.

808x motherboard with V20 CPU, 640K memory and 8 8-bit slots.

V20mobo.jpg

286 motherboard with 287 fpu. Looks like it has had some leakage from the battery so will need some repair work.

286.jpg

Finally a Color Graphics card that will work in the V20 board. I don't know much about this, but it looks good 😀

vidcard_3.jpg

Total of $45, courtesy of my drop shipper 😀

damn thats a good little find 😀

Now I wanna build up a 286 againnn..!

debs3759 wrote:

Finally a Color Graphics card that will work in the V20 board. I don't know much about this, but it looks good 😀

vidcard_3.jpg

I have the same card, used in a XT system. At least it looks the same.

I have the card's manual as well. Here's a scanned copy.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/107843342 … /CGA%20card.zip

(edit) Damn, now that I took another look at the motherboard, I have the same motherboard also. It's the XT I use the card with. Here's a pic:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/107843342 … xt/IMG_0038.jpg

And here's the motherboard manual:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/107843342 … motherboard.zip

I have a thread at vcfed.com about this system and some mods I've done to it (I am jh1523 on that site)
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?484 … ebay-components
Mine has a few empty BIOS sockets that I've put to good use. 😀

I'm totally diggin the XT 8-bit hardware just now.

Debs... those are some sweet finds, could I ask... of all the 8-bit graphics cards, you struggled to find one with colour? Are most monochrome?

Once I tie up some loose projects... I will aim to build a nice XT.

386_junkie wrote:

I'm totally diggin the XT 8-bit hardware just now.

Debs... those are some sweet finds, could I ask... of all the 8-bit graphics cards, you struggled to find one with colour? Are most monochrome?

Once I tie up some loose projects... I will aim to build a nice XT.

With regards to 8 bit systems, color graphics generally refers to CGA as opposed to EGA or monochrome https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter

Having used an original IBM CGA in my 5150+5153, I found it a bit too limiting for my interests. I couldn't find many CGA (cyan and magenta!) games that I'd be interested in. Bumping up to an EGA card made the computer ten times more interesting, and most CGA games still work fine (aside from Flight Sim... which forces an incompatible mode when it detects EGA). I'm sure if someone had played games with CGA graphics as a kid it'd be different though... I did not. 😀

Bought this board from eBay: http://www.asrock.com/mb/VIA/P4VM900-SATA2/

Not cheap at all, but I'd really like to have some PCIe results with 478 processors. I'm finding that the AGP options are just too limited for some of the faster processors.

Asrock always delivers with "oddball" boards like this one 😀

Time for something little more recent 😀

Quadro2 MXR (NV11 @ 175 MHz, 32MB SDR @ 183 MHz)

Quadro SDR (NV10 @ 135 MHz, 64MB SDR @ 166 MHz)

Quadro DDR (NV10 @ 135 MHz, 64MB DDR @ 333 MHz)

ELSA Gloria-L88

ELSA Gloria XXL

rkrenicki wrote:

First, a Sound Blaster 16 CT3910 with an OPL3

I have an CT-2910, and it is a good card. Nothing really über awesomme about it.
Other than it's a really solid and useable card. Fits perfect in a 486/Pentium.

Edit...
That motherboard. It looks like an Intel. Not that I say it is one such. It only looks like it.

@havli
Nice haul! From Germany right? 😁
Too bad that seller ran out of Gloria XXLs 🙁

Me join same Kaufland sale 😁

XL

XXL

Gloria Dell

Gloria Compaq

and few Quadros

second PC20-III + original monochrome crt

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

Bought this board from eBay: http://www.asrock.com/mb/VIA/P4VM900-SATA2/

Not cheap at all, but I'd really like to have some PCIe results with 478 processors. I'm finding that the AGP options are just too limited for some of the faster processors.

Asrock always delivers with "oddball" boards like this one 😀

There are an even more odd one: http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/P4i945GC/

This board uses the Intel 945GC which is a low end chipset for Pentium D/Core 2, but with a Socket 478 CPU, it has PCI-E Graphics as well, but uses Dual Channel DDR2 667 unlike the other Asrock mobo you got (Single channel DDR400). I think the P4i945GC is better than the P4VM900-SATA2 imo, but anyways your choice

The only downside of the P4i945GC is it doesn't support Willamette P4/Celerons, only Northwood and Prescott P4/Celerons

I bought an Asus P5A board for my SS7 K6-III+ build on ebay only to discover when it arrived:

Arghhhhh, it was advertised as a 1.04. The seller has a crap return policy too 😢

As a second attempt, I bought a Soyo SY-5EMA+, which shouldn't have multiple revisions (as far as I can tell).

Carlos S. M. wrote:

There are an even more odd one: http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/P4i945GC/

This board uses the Intel 945GC which is a low end chipset for Pentium D/Core 2, but with a Socket 478 CPU, it has PCI-E Graphics as well, but uses Dual Channel DDR2 667 unlike the other Asrock mobo you got (Single channel DDR400). I think the P4i945GC is better than the P4VM900-SATA2 imo, but anyways your choice

The only downside of the P4i945GC is it doesn't support Willamette P4/Celerons, only Northwood and Prescott P4/Celerons

As well, Biostar made a socket 478 board with G31 chipset, supporting DDR2-800. Though again, it doesn't support Willamettes.
http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/introduct … on.php?S_ID=502

joe6pack wrote:

I bought an Asus P5A board for my SS7 K6-III+ build on ebay only to discover when it arrived:

Arghhhhh, it was advertised as a 1.04. The seller has a crap return policy too 😢

Sorry for my ignorance, but what is the difference between the 1.04 and 1.06 that makes the 1.04 more desirable?

As for returns, It is "not as described", so eBay will force the seller to take it back regardless of the sellers "return policy" (which is a joke term now on eBay). Just open up a case with them.

After 4 years of desperate search I've almost convinced myself that these never actually existed.
But today is a very lucky day!
Seller's pic of a pair of Powerleap PL-P3/Xeon-S adapters, claimed new, stuffed with the corresponding SL6BY:

@hard1k

If you decide you dont want those... ^.^

rkrenicki wrote:

joe6pack wrote:

I bought an Asus P5A board for my SS7 K6-III+ build on ebay only to discover when it arrived:

Arghhhhh, it was advertised as a 1.04. The seller has a crap return policy too 😢

Sorry for my ignorance, but what is the difference between the 1.04 and 1.06 that makes the 1.04 more desirable?

As for returns, It is "not as described", so eBay will force the seller to take it back regardless of the sellers "return policy" (which is a joke term now on eBay). Just open up a case with them.

Later versions of that board had issues with running the +'s (they ran very slow I think).