clueless1 wrote:

I ordered a Xeon X3230 today for $26 shipped.

These Xeon chips seem to be hidden gems, if you can make them work. I got one for 775 a while ago, they seller already modded it, it has to be rotated. And another eBay seller offers a "I'll patch your BIOS service". I'm yet to try it, because apparently it's a 150W or something silly processor 😵

But yea, the regular Core version would have cost a lot more.

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

clueless1 wrote:

I ordered a Xeon X3230 today for $26 shipped.

These Xeon chips seem to be hidden gems, if you can make them work. I got one for 775 a while ago, they seller already modded it, it has to be rotated. And another eBay seller offers a "I'll patch your BIOS service". I'm yet to try it, because apparently it's a 150W or something silly processor 😵

But yea, the regular Core version would have cost a lot more.

Yeah, I'm currently using a Xeon 3070, the equivalent of an E6700, and I got it for cheap too. The Xeon X3230 is apparently the equivalent of a Q6700. Intel's official support list shows E6700 as fastest supported processor. So it all makes sense why the X3230 should work.

@Batyra
that looks like a board made to replace older ones where ISA boards are more important than pci/agp ... maybe machinery control pc or something
this is the ss7 system for a sound card lover 😁

🤣

keropi wrote:

@Batyra
that looks like a board made to replace older ones where ISA boards are more important than pci/agp ... maybe machinery control pc or something
this is the ss7 system for a sound card lover 😁

In it's brochure board is described as "industrial" and the way its build shows it... multiplier and bus are set by switch - not jumper etc...
and "sound card lover..." Oh yes, here I am! 😀

I though that my Tyan Trinity with 4xISA + 4xPCI + AGP gives me possibilites... but this one for ISA cards is diffrent league 😀

Cool, it's intended for industrial use, as you might have found or guessed. http://www.dfi-itox.com/pages/products/mothers/vp2/g7vp2.php

Batyra wrote:

Today I've recieved strange board... SS7 but without AGP and with 6 ISA slots (one shared with PCI)...
According to manual it can take CPU's from non MMX Pentium 90 up to AMD K6-III 550...

Got this bad boy in the mail today... cost a pretty penny as they're quite rare.

Came this little Celeron, is the first P3 based Celeron which joins my CPU collection, i have Mendocino, Netbrust and Core 2 based Celerons, but not any Coppermine or Tualtin one. A Celeron 1300 is also on the way. Paid 1.99 € for this Celeron

Artex wrote:

Happy New Years all!

That XGI Volari DUO V8 Ultra is one sexy beast... could you possibly post some 3dmark scores? And maybe some period correct game benchmarks?

This year starts exellent!

Last week i got the 12 motherboards cheap, today the box with 40 pc cards will arrive (have no idea what's in it! nice surprises i hope). Yesterday i made a great deal for some items i've been searching long and hard for and will come later this week:

Matrox g400MAX (did have the regular one, now finally the MAX) comes with a matrox pci tvtuner card
Asus CT-479 cpu adapter!!!! wanted one for a very long time. Finally found one. Boxed and cheap 😎
Intel pentium M 740 for the ct-479
Creative voodoo2 12mb. Finally i found a second Creative one. Another sli set complete if it works.
Another (regular) AWE64 this one comes with the memory upgrade!

35 euro total, i am VERY pleased with that! 🤣

Later today i hope to see what the big box with cards is about. It's a small gamble as i do know there are 2 voodoo's in there, i payed 1 euro per card! Fingers crossed.
Can be all network cards or modems 🤣

stamasd wrote:

Got this bad boy in the mail today... cost a pretty penny as they're quite rare. […]
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Got this bad boy in the mail today... cost a pretty penny as they're quite rare.

Looks like a nice one. In terms of regulair and normal abondanbt Intel CPU's. How well
does it perform. I mean... What are the equivelant in terms of 386/486 CPU's?

Just got a message today. Going to pick up a SCSI bundle tomorrow.
It should be something like an external SCSI box for 5.25 inch drives, a SCSI harddrive and possible a controller.
Perhaps some cables? I really have no clue. All I know is that the bundle has that box and that HDD.
The stuff are untested, so I am quite qurious on to what it is and what state it is in.

Meh... Can't complain as it is free stuff.

Pics will come...

brostenen wrote:

Just got a message today. Going to pick up a SCSI bundle tomorrow. It should be something like an external SCSI box for 5.25 inc […]
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Just got a message today. Going to pick up a SCSI bundle tomorrow.
It should be something like an external SCSI box for 5.25 inch drives, a SCSI harddrive and possible a controller.
Perhaps some cables? I really have no clue. All I know is that the bundle has that box and that HDD.
The stuff are untested, so I am quite qurious on to what it is and what state it is in.

Meh... Can't complain as it is free stuff.

Pics will come...

I have been fidling with computers for a long time, like 20 years or so and i have seen an awful lot of hardware. But i never set up anything with scsi.
Sometimes i had drives but somehow i always ended up having cards and cables that do not fit together....

I never found out exactly what was what and how to put it together i mean there is scsi 1 , 2 wide ultra etc. and too many types of connectors.
I always ended up throwing stuff away and THEN a controller came along that might have fit. When that was long gone a cable came etc. etc.

I found documentation online a bit ''blurry'' and never found a straight forward guide with pictures about the differences in SCSI.

Finally having a HD and a cable that fit i never could find a used controller card for a low price. I could never justify paying a lot of money just to get an old 36gb hd (or something like that) going when i had multiple 80gb+ Ide drives for next to nothing (or sata). I gave up and as of now i have nothing scsi.

Maybe i never cared enough 🤣

I'm kinda in the same boat. Also on the PC scene from beginning of the 1990's and just never fiddled around with SCSI. Last year I bought an old IBM e-server that had everything already installed. But I wanted more. A few months ago bought my first SCSI Adaptec 1542CP ISA card - boxed with all the bells and whistles (cable, active terminator). Connected it to a 486 and tried a few small 50-pin SCSI drives - 1 dead, 3 working, CD-ROM working. A few days ago bought another SCSI card, this time PCI and NIB - KOUWELL KW-801V75 - I haven't opened it yet 😉 It has both 50 and 68 pin connectors. Wondering how much better a PCI card is on a 486.

As time permits (maybe next year 🤣 ) I'll play around with both cards. ISA on 286/386/486 and PCI on 486 and Pentium. Also have a SCSI to IDE/CF adapter and I'm wondering how that performs.

KOUWELL KW-801V75

Well, i got them and it's 60+ cards 😵 It felt like christmas again....

Someone was hiding some old cards 🤣 Very few cards that i will keep , there are a LOT of ATi/Matrox and S3 agp/pci cards. Already had a couple of those so most will be gone again.

Useful cards for me: 3dfx v2 and v3 3000 agp, Diamond tnt2, Asus geforce2gts, Medion geforc4 ti4200.

Few extra keepers: G200 pci, a Permedia card and Intel 740.

Question: What is the best card to keep from Ati Rage series? And Which from s3? I got 15x Ati and 15x S3 here, all kinds of flavors.....Rage, Rage pro, 128, Rage II and from S3 All kinds of trio's, some virge GX some DX, savage 3d, trio 3D

^ what are those dual display cards in the upper left corner of the first pic?

S3 cards are good for DOS gaming and testing stuff, VIRGE GX and GX2 are the fatest ViRGE cards without counting the Trio3D series which are derived from ViRGE, S3 Savage3D and the later Savage4 cards were faster in 3D, but they couldn't compete with cards from the same era, i remember finding a Savage 4 Pro begin slower than a TNT2 M64

Rage 128 > Rage Pro > Rage II when it comes to perfomance iirc

i saw a SiS card in there

I'm keeping several Ati cards, wil be fun to a line up one day and benchmark the series. Only keeping s3 virge GX (seems to be quickest), rest can go.

The dual cards are a mouth full, i found a link: http://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/component … cs-jeronimo-pro

They are permedia2 based dual head it seems.

Carlos S. M. wrote:

S3 cards are good for DOS gaming and testing stuff, VIRGE GX and GX2 are the fatest ViRGE cards without counting the Trio3D series which are derived from ViRGE, S3 Savage3D and the later Savage4 cards were faster in 3D, but they couldn't compete with cards from the same era, i remember finding a Savage 4 Pro begin slower than a TNT2 M64

Rage 128 > Rage Pro > Rage II when it comes to perfomance iirc

i saw a SiS card in there

Yes there is one SiS: 86c201 pci card

brostenen wrote:

Looks like a nice one. In terms of regulair and normal abondanbt Intel CPU's. How well
does it perform. I mean... What are the equivelant in terms of 386/486 CPU's?

Well it's essentially the same as a Cyrix 486DRX2 25/50 but with 8kB cache instead of 1kB, so it should perform somewhat above the Cyrix chip assuming the cache is enabled.

I'll do some benchmarking once I get a working 386DX motherboard that does 25MHz. I have 3 of them but they're all dead. 🙁

meljor wrote:

I'm keeping several Ati cards, wil be fun to a line up one day and benchmark the series. Only keeping s3 virge GX (seems to be quickest), rest can go.

The dual cards are a mouth full, i found a link: http://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/component … cs-jeronimo-pro

They are permedia2 based dual head it seems.

About the Rage series, don't forget there are multiple models in some of the series, like multi Rage 128 models like 128 VR, 128 GL, 128 Pro and Ultra