Got my self some soundblasters.

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Bought a P2 board with a CPU and 2 sticks of ram on it. Seller's photo: […]
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Bought a P2 board with a CPU and 2 sticks of ram on it. Seller's photo:

No idea what the CPU is (asked the seller and he quoted the sticker on the BIOS chip..) or how much RAM it has (did not ask after the first question) but he swears it works, so I paid around $20 for it, a floppy drive and 2 DVD/CD-RW combo drives. If anyone can ID the board from this lousy photo, humour me 😀

I want to turn it into a 99/00 gaming PC.. I want to add a Voodoo 3 to it, but I have none and finding one would be a hassle. The only Voodoo 2 I have is in my MMX build. I guess that means I may buy and use a TNT2 for the first time.. GeForce 256 is not an option, as it's almost as rare as the Voodoo 3 where I live. So the only other option is GeForce 2 MX 400 (which isn't time accurate but actually fairly decent for such a rig..)

I may end up getting both a TNT2 and an MX400..

This just arrived and I don't know whether to be happy or disappointed. The board is a Lucky Star 6P2BX2 which is ok and it has the 256mb PC133 ram but the cpu is not a P2 350 but actually a P3 450.. Which isn't bad and all but not very useful as I already have an ongoing Tualatin Celeron 1300 build so currently I have no idea what to do with this. I could stick an i740 and move my V2 from the MMX to this I suppose as it would much better suit the era.. but the Voodoo 2 feels just right in an MMX PC for me. This board/cpu is begging for a Voodoo 3, I hope I can find one..

Ordered some 16MB simms for my SB32 cards (CT3600 and CT3670).

I had originally ordered from 1-800-memory off of eBay, but even though they had them listed, they don't have any stock and are unable to find parts to build them.

Found a seller on Amazon that had some for a bit cheaper so I ordered from there instead.

appiah4 wrote:

appiah4 wrote:

Bought a P2 board with a CPU and 2 sticks of ram on it. Seller's photo: […]
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Bought a P2 board with a CPU and 2 sticks of ram on it. Seller's photo:

No idea what the CPU is (asked the seller and he quoted the sticker on the BIOS chip..) or how much RAM it has (did not ask after the first question) but he swears it works, so I paid around $20 for it, a floppy drive and 2 DVD/CD-RW combo drives. If anyone can ID the board from this lousy photo, humour me 😀

I want to turn it into a 99/00 gaming PC.. I want to add a Voodoo 3 to it, but I have none and finding one would be a hassle. The only Voodoo 2 I have is in my MMX build. I guess that means I may buy and use a TNT2 for the first time.. GeForce 256 is not an option, as it's almost as rare as the Voodoo 3 where I live. So the only other option is GeForce 2 MX 400 (which isn't time accurate but actually fairly decent for such a rig..)

I may end up getting both a TNT2 and an MX400..

This just arrived and I dont know whether to be happy or disappointed. The board is a Lucky Star 6P2BX2 which is ok and it has the 256mb PC133 ram but the cpu is not a P2 but actually a P3 450.. Which iant bad and all but not very useful as I already have an ongoing Tualatin Celeron 1300 buğld so no idea what to do with this. I could stick an i740 and move my V2 from the MMX to this I suppose as it would much better suşt the era...

You could just pretend it's a PII-450 for now and build it as you you were already planning.

Right.. So my own shots of the stuff that arrived in the mail in the last two days:

Lucky Star 6P2BX2 VER:3.0

Pentium III 450 SL37C

2xPC133 128MB SDRAM

Creative Sound Blaster Live! CT4780 (The version to get.. right?)

Microsoft Intellmiouse 1.3A, bought hoping it would be a 1.1A version combo mouse to use with an adapter, turned out to be a 1.3A PS/2 only.. 🙁

appiah4 wrote:

Right.. So my own shots of the stuff that arrived in the mail in the last two days: http://image.bolterandchainsword.com/uploads […]
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Right.. So my own shots of the stuff that arrived in the mail in the last two days:

Microsoft Intellmiouse 1.3A, bought hoping it would be a 1.1A version combo mouse to use with an adapter, turned out to be a 1.3A PS/2 only.. 🙁

Good info about versions, will need to keep an eye on that. Don't know why but I just can't get enough of these. Love the design.

Creative Sound Blaster Live! X-Gamer. Normally nothing to be excited about, but seller had everything (manuals, driver CD, demo CD, and even all 3 games). Box was also in good condition.

Just ordered this unused 80286 Mainboard in its original box with manual and drivers - but without CPU, BIOS and memory. Not cheap, but difficult to find today I think...

Need to decide if I keep the battery or not after reception...

If somebody is interested - the shop has more of them in stock.

What would be the reason of buying a motherboard without any chips in the sockets? CPUs and keyboard chips aren't hard to find, but bios chips.... and (I guess) pay more then $10 for it 😕

Found a Phenom 2 X3 720 black and first time i use a am3 cpu. What can you say about it? How it run with a 890gx chipset?

386SX wrote:

Found a Phenom 2 X3 720 black and first time i use a am3 cpu. What can you say about it? How it run with a 890gx chipset?

I still use an Athlon II X4 640 BE in my secondary gaming rig and I think they are phenomenally good CPUs and aged extremely well thanks to their architecture being built with multithreading in mind. The Phenom would likely benefit from a larger cache in non-gaming scenarios tremendously, but I suggest you definitely try unlocking that 4th (and 5th.. and 6th 😀 ) core.. you never know!

kixs wrote:

What would be the reason of buying a motherboard without any chips in the sockets? CPUs and keyboard chips aren't hard to find, but bios chips.... and (I guess) pay more then $10 for it 😕

The BIOS is no issue at all, I have already 2 very similar boards, see here
SUNTAC 80286 Mainboard help

I am sure one or bith will work. Will post the image of the other board, too.

Also have enough spare CPUs, memory is standard, keyboard chip is the most difficult but I also have several to try.

Yes, was more than $10 😉 But condition seems to be excellent and I will keep it as collectors item not for use 😉

In that case 😎

Bought this lot for €20 + shipping on a local trading site.

The sellers simply lists it as "amd k6" and didn't know anything about the motherboard, but I compared images on Google Images, and am fairly certain it is a Chaintech 5AGM2 Super Socket 7 board.

We shall see when i receive it. If it's a standard Socket 7 board I can still use it.

Also included is a working AT PSU, and some cards no one really cares about.

As it has an AGP slot, it's certainly a SS7 board 😉

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As it has an AGP slot, it's certainly a SS7 board 😉

Great! I didn't know that the AGP slot was a definitive giveaway.

Bought 3 AGP cards for $3, seller threw in a free ISA 16-bit sound card for free

Diamond Stealth II G460 (i740), I had this exact same card in my PII-350. I may use it with a Voodoo 2 in a future PII build.

S3 Trio3D/2X, I basically got this because I thought it was PCI.. Kind of shocked to find out it was actually AGP, never saw AGP S3 cards before.

Matrox G200A, I bought this for no other reason than that I use a Mystique 220 for my Pentium MMX build and like its 2D even though DOS game scrolling can be choppy at times. No idea what to do with it, or what it's capable of

(Best Union?) MF-1869 16-bit ISA sound card, a bonus but not really useful as the only PC I'd use it in would require a card with an IDE controller for the CD-ROM

Predator99 wrote:

Just ordered this unused 80286 Mainboard in its original box with manual and drivers - but without CPU, BIOS and memory. Not che […]
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Just ordered this unused 80286 Mainboard in its original box with manual and drivers - but without CPU, BIOS and memory. Not cheap, but difficult to find today I think...

Need to decide if I keep the battery or not after reception...

If somebody is interested - the shop has more of them in stock.

mb1.jpg

mb2.jpg

For how munch do they sell these ? I've got a 286 in a very unusual form factor which seems to work but unfortunately I've not found how to plug a keyboard on it (there is zero plug on the mobo, and I had to solder wires on it to actually power it on) so having an AT mobo will definitely be better than a mobo that you can't put anywhere and that has no keyboard connector. Since I don't think I'll ever be able to use that board, I may just salvage the chips and put them on that other board

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386SX wrote:

Found a Phenom 2 X3 720 black and first time i use a am3 cpu. What can you say about it? How it run with a 890gx chipset?

I still use an Athlon II X4 640 BE in my secondary gaming rig and I think they are phenomenally good CPUs and aged extremely well thanks to their architecture being built with multithreading in mind. The Phenom would likely benefit from a larger cache in non-gaming scenarios tremendously, but I suggest you definitely try unlocking that 4th (and 5th.. and 6th 😀 ) core.. you never know!

I wish that AMD had kept on even for just another run with Stars as that was a really well rounded architecture unlike the hot running shit that people got stuck with for years. I hope that AMD doesn't make a mistake like that ever again.

dexvx wrote:

Creative Sound Blaster Live! X-Gamer. Normally nothing to be excited about, but seller had everything (manuals, driver CD, demo […]
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Creative Sound Blaster Live! X-Gamer. Normally nothing to be excited about, but seller had everything (manuals, driver CD, demo CD, and even all 3 games). Box was also in good condition.

How does the sound quality on that compare to the standard and value models? I run a value in my P3-900 machine and I always get a slight bit of humming at top volumes on my headphones